To guide healthcare systems in providing safe care the NQF has endorsed an updated list of Safe
Practices for Better Healthcare.

GE’s Healthcare IT business plans to outfit a rural North Carolina hospital with a complete
Centricity® Perioperative Anesthesia solution, mapped to fit the
hospital’s existing workflow.

Coastal has released eight HIPAA training programs that accommodate the
new mandates of the HITECH Act.

AHRQ has recently issued a special emphasis notice focused on
addressing health care associated infections (HAIs) within ambulatory
care settings.

In response to an FDA
notice issued on Dec. 3, 2009 hospitals throughout the U.S. are faced with
the task of finding acceptable alternatives to the STERIS System 1®
sterile processing system.

D2 Sales, LLC announced that Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center has successfully completed their pilot testing and is deploying
the My Patient Passport Express™ throughout their facilities.

A poor economy in a rural area might seem like overwhelming obstacles
to creating a sophisticated culture of safety in a health care system
that serves the largest aging population in the country, but leaders at
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems beat those odds in 2009.

liniComp Intl., a global provider of clinical documentation systems,
announced today that VA Rocky Mountain Network (VISN 19) selected
CliniComp’s Essentris® Critical Care™solution.

Pfizer announced results of a survey the company recently sponsored
that shows physicians are more likely to report side effects through an
electronic health records (EHR) system, as compared to traditional
paper methods.

TVR Communications (TVRC), the largest U.S. provider of interactive
patient services and entertainment products, and Interactive Care
Network (ICN) have partnered to deliver an enhanced discharge planning
solution.