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By Susan Carr In PSQH, we usually focus on preventing patient harm that results from errors—mediation overdoses, wrong-site surgery, MRI accidents, failure to rescue, etc.—that trace back to systemic problems in healthcare institutions. Those problems include poor communication, environments full of distraction and stress, inadequate training, power hierarchies, to name a few. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:13 |
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Healthcare Providers to Increase Efficiency with InSites Connect |
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Intelligent InSites, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise real-time location systems (RTLS) software helping hospitals improve operation performance and patient satisfaction while supporting multiple RFID and RTLS technologies, has annouced that its InSites Connect RTLS mobility solution is now available in Apple's App Store. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:11 |
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Physicians, Hospitals, Health Groups Announce Initiative to Improve the Medical Liability Environment in Massachusetts |
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Led by the Massachusetts Medical Society, six health care organizations announced on April 18, 2012, the start of a major initiative to improve the medical liability system in the Commonwealth.
The new alliance has launched its effort with the release of a Roadmap to Reform, an alternative approach to medical liability intended to improve patient safety, increase transparency, reduce litigation, and cut costs to the health care system, and with the announcement that seven hospitals will participate in a pilot program this year to implement the reforms. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:54 |
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Language Line Services Collaborates with Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy on Annual Conference |
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Monterey, California—Language Line Services, the world's leading provider of translation and interpretation services, will collaborate with the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy (SHCA) as a key sponsor at its 2012 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas set for April 17-20, 2012. SHCA is a nonprofit patient advocacy organization affiliated with the American Hospital Association. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 March 2012 08:41 |
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Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Chooses Phytel to Enhance Its Patient-Centered Medical Home Model |
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Phytel, the leader in automated physician-led population health improvement, recently announced that Northeast Georgia Physicians Group has selected Phytel and its Atmosphere platform to help transform all of its 30-plus ambulatory-care clinics into patient-centered medical homes by the end of the year. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:39 |
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