Call for Presenters for 2013 TeamSTEPPS Conference
The TeamSTEPPS National Conference organizers are looking for presenters who wish to share their stories about any new, innovative and engaging ways they are using team training to improve patient safety in their organization. The conference will take place June 12-13, 2013, in Dallas, Texas.
KBCore Wins ONC ‘Investing in Innovation’ Challenge: Patient Safety Reporting Systems
Over the past several weeks, many of us at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Food and Drug Administration have been evaluating the submissions for the Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge.
Four Technology Recommendations to Reduce Alarm Fatigue
According to ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of patient care, alarm hazards are the number-one health technology hazard for 2013.
Ekahau Location Analytics Improves Asset Utilization, Staff Safety
Ekahau Inc., the worldwide leader in Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) has released Ekahau Vision™ 2.0, the company’s new location analytics platform for hospital administrators, staff and caregivers.
FDB Releases ICD-10 Codes within its Clinical Decision Support Drug Knowledge
Nellcor OxiNet III Remote Respiratory Monitoring Improves Patient Safety
Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in patient monitoring and respiratory care devices, has installed its largest capnography connected to a centralized remote monitoring system at the Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG).
Hospital Becomes First in New England to Implement Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring
DebMed, creator of the world’s first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, has announced that Cooley Dickinson Hospital has become the first in the New England region to implement the DebMed® GMS™ electronic hand hygiene monitoring system.
Ultrasound Gel and Infections: Researchers Propose Guidelines to Reduce Risk
In the December issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, guidelines have been proposed by epidemiologists from Beaumont Health System to reduce the risk of infection from contaminated gels.
Patient Empowerment Possible Tool to Raise Hand Hygiene Behaviors
According to a study published recently, most patients at risk for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) agree that healthcare workers should be reminded to wash their hands, but little more than half would feel comfortable asking their physicians to wash.
Editor’s Note: ‘Let’s Improve Our Way Out of This Mess’
Even at times of highest stress and acrimony during the recent political campaign, there were pockets of optimism within the medical community about our ability to solve the country’s healthcare problems. I’ve written about this refreshing and unexpected optimism before, following last year’s IHI National Forum. I ran into it again recently, not surprisingly, with Don Berwick, MD, who was the closing keynote speaker at the Pega Collaborative Healthcare Summit in Boston last month.