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Patient Safety

Isabel Healthcare and BMJ Group Introduce “Isabel with Best Practice”

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Ann Arbor, Michigan and London—Isabel Healthcare and BMJ Group recently introduced Isabel with Best Practice, a powerful diagnosis and treatment decision aid that combines the strengths of both companies’ existing systems to help clinicians diagnose and treat faster and more accurately at the point of care.

Technology

Upper Chesapeake Health Selects Forerun FlexChart Physician Charting Software for EDs

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Waltham, Massachusetts—Forerun, Inc., an innovator in electronic charting solutions for the emergency department (ED), announced that Upper Chesapeake Health (UCH), an affiliate of the University of Maryland Medical System, has chosen Forerun’s FlexChart™ advanced physician documentation software for the EDs of Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and Harford Memorial Hospital. UCH is a not-for-profit, two-hospital system that delivers a broad range of services, technology and facilities to patients throughout a tri-county area in Maryland.

Technology

Companies Join Forces to Accelerate Connected Health Innovation and Adoption

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

New York and San Francisco—Health Evolution Partners and Verizon Enterprise Solutions have established a strategic relationship to encourage innovation and adoption of connected health information technologies that help drive patient care improvements and better manage costs.

Uncategorized

McKesson Acquires peerVue, A Leader in Radiology Workflow Solutions

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Atlanta and Sarasota, Florida—McKesson announced that it has acquired peerVue Inc., an innovative provider of solutions that simplify diagnostic medical imaging workflow, expedite communications for improved quality and efficiency, and support customer efforts to improve patient safety.

Patient Safety

California Hospital Patient Safety Organization Selects ECRI Institute PSO for Patient Safety Services

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania—ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization announces an agreement to provide patient safety services to the California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO). ECRI Institute PSO will support CHPSO with a patient safety data collection and reporting system and by analyzing adverse events and other information from participating hospitals and health systems.

Quality Improvement

ANA Awards 6 Hospitals for Outstanding Nursing Quality

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Silver Spring, Maryland—Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital decreased its rates of patient falls by 33 percent and pressure ulcers acquired by patients during a hospital stay by 60 percent over three years.

Leadership

HRET Selects Maureen Bisognano as 2012 TRUST Award Recipient

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Chicago—The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), selected Maureen Bisognano, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), as the recipient of the 2012 TRUST Award.

Leadership

2012 AHA Health Care System Transformation Fellowship

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Chicago—Sixteen senior executives have been selected to participate in the second class of the American Hospital Association (AHA) Health Care System Transformation Fellowship. The Fellowship is an intensive six-month program that provides participants with a road map of how to design and plan for new care delivery and payment models, such as medical homes, bundled payments and clinical integration programs.

Accreditation & Regulation

AORN Releases Implementation Guide for Prevention of RSIs

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Denver—The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has published an Implementation Guide for the Recommended practices for prevention of retained surgical items (RSIs).

Quality Improvement

National Quality Forum Endorses Two American College of Surgeons NSQIP Measures

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Chicago—Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were developed by ACS in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as possible national outcomes measures that could be adopted by the governmental body as early as 2015.