IBC and Health Dialog Team Up to Help Primary Care Doctors Improve Care
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) announced that it is collaborating with Health Dialog, a leading provider of health care analytics and decision support, on a new pilot program that will offer health coaching to people with chronic illnesses to help them stay well and out of the hospital.
Medical Image Exchange Enables Faster Diagnosis, Improved Outcomes and More
Number of Adverse Health Events in Minnesota Hospitals Increases Slightly in 2011
The number of reportable adverse events in Minnesota hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and community behavioral health hospitals increased from 305 in 2010 to 316 in 2011, according to a report released by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). Despite the increase, the number of events resulting in serious injury or death to a patient decreased from 107 in 2010 to 89 in 2011.
Barriers to Telemedicine Limit Patient Access to Quality Care
A Cost-Effective Approach to Preventing Medication Errors: Nurses’ Clinical Reasoning
3M Makes Call to Action to Reduce Surgical Site Infections
High Reliability Healthcare: Applying CRM to High-Performing Teams, Part 8
People make decisions, or choices, based on their knowledge of the current operating environment and their past education or experience. This past education or experience is stored in the human brain in the form of rules. The human brain perceives a situation, scans for a rule from its long-term memory, recalls and then acts to apply the rule.
High Reliability Healthcare: Applying CRM to High-Performing Teams, Part 7
Situational awareness is the degree to which knowledge and perception of a given situation mirrors reality. Figure 4 shows how threats such as distractions, miscommunication, poor attention to detail, workarounds or other problems can cause a situation to deteriorate and get off track. A team with good situational awareness recognizes these “red flags” and the reality of the situation, then applies the necessary resources to adjust back toward the goal of the plan of care.
Medication Safety
Medication Safety Industry/Product News ISMP to Assess U.S. Hospitals Regarding Medication Safety Practices AdverseEvents Launches Innovative Drug Side Effect Reporting ISMP Launches 2011 Assessment of Medication Safety Medical Center Selects McKesson’s Pharmacy Automation to Advance Safety Initiatives ISMP Medication Safety Alert! The Power of Storytelling ActiveHealth Management includes FDA Safety Alerts in clinical decision support … Continued
High Reliability Healthcare: Applying CRM to High-Performing Teams, Part 6
Element #5 – Adaptability
Adaptability is all about working well with others and being flexible enough to adjust to changes in the situation or plan of care. Remaining flexible when new information becomes available is critical to making a team function well, especially during unplanned situations and emergencies.