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Quality Improvement

Health Language’s Scalable Language Engine Helps Hospitals, Physicians Demonstrate Meaningful Use

August 5, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Health Language, Inc. (HLI) announced that its medical terminology management tools can facilitate compliance with the final meaningful use requirements.

Technology

ABMS to Develop Physician Assessments Related to Health Information Technology as Part of its ABMS Maintenance of Certification® Program

August 5, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) intends to create tools to promote the meaningful use of health information technology (HIT) and incorporate them into ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (ABMS MOC®), a program created by ABMS and its 24 Member Boards to promote lifelong learning and self assessment for physician specialists.

Patient Safety

ITA Partners extends its oncology decision-support offerings with the launch of eviti™

August 4, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

ITA Partners, Inc., an independent, third-party expert with nearly a decade of experience supporting oncology treatment decisions and patient care, is extending its decision-support services with the introduction of eviti™.

Accreditation & Regulation

Web Site Launch of Redesigned AHRQ National Guideline and National Quality Measures Clearinghouses

August 4, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, and its technology subcontractor, Silverchair, announce the relaunch of two key healthcare Web sites they have developed for the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Medication Safety

New Standard for Labeling on Injectable Medications Designed to Reduce Likelihood of Patient Death, Disability

August 4, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

To reduce the likelihood of patient death and disability resulting from errors in the administration of injectable medications in hospitals and other healthcare settings, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is advancing new labeling requirements that will standardize the information permitted on the highly visible area of these vials to only cautionary statements intended to prevent imminent life-threatening situations.

Accreditation & Regulation

Delaware Tightens Oversight of Physicians

August 3, 2010 ‐ Patton McGinley

By Grena Porto, RN, MS, ARM, CPRHM

In July, Delaware Governor Markell signed a set of nine bills that tighten oversight of physicians and increase protection of children in medical care. Known collectively as The Bradley Bills, Delaware’s new legislation is the most comprehensive of its kind in the country and is named after a physician pedophile who got away with sexual abuse or rape of more than 100 children over the course of 10 years, while fellow physicians, hospitals, government agencies, and others looked the other way.

Leadership

ASQ Healthcare Conference Seeks Presenters

July 26, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Healthcare organizations from around the globe are invited to share their models of quality improvement at the upcoming 2011 Quality Institute for Healthcare (QIHC) Conference, May 16-18 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Leadership

IPC The Hospitalist Company Partners with UCSF To Create Leadership Program in Hospital Medicine

July 23, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc., a leading national hospitalist physician group practice company, announced that it has entered into an agreement with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Hospital Medicine and its Center for the Health Professions to develop a leadership training program for dozens of IPC’s key physician managers.

Technology

Washable, Wireless Mouse an Ideal Solution for Prevention of Cross-contamination

July 21, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) cost U.S. hospitals $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a recently released study by the Centers for Disease Control. Even more alarmingly, the CDC reports 48,000 deaths in the same year can attributed to illnesses caught during hospital

Environment and Facilities

CIVCO’s RFSuite™ Enables Facilities to Satisfy Requirements Set out by MITA’s Radiation Therapy Readiness Initiative

July 19, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Recently, the Medical Imaging Technology Association (MITA) presented a plan to the FDA titled “Radiation Therapy Readiness Check Initiative.” CIVCO’s new RFSuite is designed with the capability to support the requirements set out in MITA’s plan.