NPSF Unveils 2011 Patient Safety Awareness Campaign
In a concerted effort to encourage and strengthen collaboration between patients, families and healthcare providers, the National Patient Safety Foundation today announced its 2011 Patient Safety Awareness Week campaign.
Patients Are Injured Due to Missed or Delayed Diagnosis Analysis Shows
Errors related to missed or delayed diagnosis are frequently a cause of patient injury and therefore an underlying cause of patient safety related events.
NIST Traceable Temperature Tracking Provides Visual Alert, RadarFind Sensor Now Waterproof Certified
eleTracking Technologies’ RadarFind real-time locating distributed sensor network now includes a temperature-measuring tag that is NIST traceable and certified to be waterproof and dustproof for hospital facilities..
Maine’s HealthInfoNet Selects Orion Health as Primary Vendor for Health Information Exchange Deployment
Maine’s HealthInfoNet has selected Orion Health as the primary technology provider for their statewide health information exchange (HIE). The HIE currently involves six healthcare organizations and many of their affiliated hospitals and physician practices that annually care for more than half of the residents of Maine.
Nation’s Leading Infections Diseases Experts Call for Mandatory Flu Vaccine for All Healthcare Personnel
Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel is a professional and ethical responsibility and non-compliance with healthcare facility policies regarding vaccination should not be tolerated, according to a position paper released today by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
Vision Facilities Management Announces Real-Time ECRI Integration
Vision Facilities Management Limited, a leading provider of integrated healthcare asset management software, announces the launch of a new two-way communication interface with ECRI Institute that will significantly improve the ability of hospital staff to manage medical device safety alerts and recalls.
Prepare for the Worst
How to Survive a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit is a manual intended to demystify what one can expect when named as a defendant in a malpractice claim. Given the likelihood that a physician practicing in the U.S. will be sued at some point in his/her career – especially those in “high risk” specialties – this book should have broad appeal in the medical community.
NightHawk Radiology Launches Client Peer Review Program
NightHawk Radiology Services announced the availability of its Client Peer Review (CPR), part of its best-in-class Quality Assurance Program, and the only one of its kind that provides an objective measure of effective communication and reporting accuracy based on the impact on patient outcomes.
Siemens Partners With ExitCare To Deliver Patient Education Services to Health IT Customers
Siemens Healthcare announced its newly-formed partnership with patient education content provider, ExitCare, to begin providing expanded patient education services to its broad health information technology customer base.
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Converts to Masimo rainbow Technology for Advanced Noninvasive Patient Monitoring Capabilities
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Colton, California, and Masimo jointly announced the completion of ARMC’s system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology.