Patient Safety

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

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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.

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Leadership

2012 AHA Health Care System Transformation Fellowship

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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.

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Quality Improvement

National Quality Forum Endorses Two American College of Surgeons NSQIP Measures

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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.

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Team Training

AHRQ Announces Free TeamSTEPPS Training Opportunities

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AHRQ announces free training opportunities for TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety), a set of evidence-based, practical tools that helps hospitals and other health care providers strengthen teamwork among caregivers with the goal of improving patient safety. AHRQ and the Department of Defense designed the TeamSTEPPS program specifically for health care providers for use in a variety of care settings.

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Technology

Barcoding

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Barcoding Barcoding Industry/Product News Cardinal Health Launches Innovative Barcode Administration to Help Hospitals Bridge Medication Safety GapsHospira has acquired Sculptor Developmental Technologies, a subsidiary of St. Clair Health Corporation Angel Medical Center today announced its rapid and successful conversion to B. Braun Medical Inc.’s innovative Outlook® 300 Safety Infusion System Hospitals now have a cost-effective … Continued

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