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IQMAX Offers Communication Suite for Smartphones and Tablets

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

IQMAX, a leader in intelligent healthcare communications, has launched IQCommunicate®, a complete suite of products specifically designed for healthcare professionals to securely communicate and collaborate in real-time for better care coordination.

Patient Safety

Call for Letters of Intent to Conduct Research in Patient Safety

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Research Grants Program seeks to stimulate new, innovative projects directed toward enhancing patient safety in the United States. The program’s objective is to promote studies leading to the prevention of human errors, system errors, patient injuries and the consequences of such adverse events in the health care setting.

Accreditation & Regulation

Joint Commission Names Top Performing U.S. Hospitals

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

“Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012,” includes 620 hospitals that are leading the way nationally in using evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes. The hospitals identified as attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability performance in 2011 represent approximately 18 percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting core measure performance data.

Technology

RadNet Joins GE Healthcare to Evaluate Breast Cancer Detection Processes

September 20, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

GE Healthcare (a business division of General Electric Company) announced on September 18 it is joining with RadNet, a network of outpatient diagnostic imaging centers, to pilot its Best Pathways initiative, a breast cancer detection optimization model.

Patient Safety

AHRQ Patient Safety Project Reduces Bloodstream Infections by 40%

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

A unique nationwide patient safety project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reduced the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units by 40 percent, according to the agency’s preliminary findings of the largest national effort to combat CLABSIs to date.

Technology

Text to Speech Audio Upgrade Improves Communication

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

TextSpeak has released the TTS-EM-HD2, a small yet all-inclusive voice synthesis paging and announcement product. Targeted to deploy with unified hospital communications, the stand-alone package requires only a single digital input signal to produce spoken audio.

Technology

Advocate Health Care and GE Healthcare Join to Reduce Patient CT Radiation Dose

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top health systems and the largest integrated health care system in the state of Illinois, and GE Healthcare, a national leader in low dose, high performance imaging, have announced a joint effort to help further reduce radiation dose in Computed Tomography (CT).

Patient Safety

Doctors Earn Incentive Payments with Pulse PQRS Qualified Registry

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Pulse, an industry-leading vendor of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Practice Management solutions, has achieved Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Qualified Registry status.

Patient Safety

Parkland Hospital to pay $1M Settlement for Alleged Patient Safety Violations

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Parkland Health & Hospital System has reached a settlement agreement with the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) that resolves and discharges all potential litigation and enforcement actions for compliance issues prior to May 31, 2012.

Quality Improvement

Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

America’s health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation’s economic stability and global competitiveness, the report says.