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Texas Children's Hospital to Provide Simulation Training to Houston Fire Department |
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Houston, Texas—Simulation Center at Texas Children's Hospital has begun providing Pediatric Simulation Training for Emergency Pre-hospital Providers (Pedi-STEPPs) to members of the Houston Fire Department (HFD) EMS. A grant from the Cullen Trust for Healthcare, as well as a community benefit donation from Texas Children's Hospital will allow this innovative training to be offered free of charge to the City for 500 firefighters over the next two years. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 March 2012 08:29 |
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GE Healthcare Initiates Evaluation Period for New Global Patient Safety Network |
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Barrington, Illinois—GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, a unit of GE Healthcare announced the launch of a 90-day evaluation for its Global Patient Safety Network (GPSN), an online community for hospitals to collaborate with peers around the world with the goal of improving patient safety. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:21 |
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NQF President and CEO Janet Corrigan Announces Plans to Step Down |
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) Board of Directors has announced that NQF’s President and CEO Janet Corrigan has submitted her resignation, effective late June 2012. Corrigan has served as NQF’s President and CEO for more than six years.
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New SAFE CARE Program to Provide Patient Education at Bedside |
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Encouraging patients and their families to take an active role in their health care by becoming involved and informed is critical. In celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 4-10, a unique patient safety education program will be released to provide patients and their families with instant access to current patient safety videos at their bedside and while receiving care. The 2012 SAFE CARE Patient Safety Education Program, is a free offering developed to assist health care organizations in educating patients to help prevent medical errors.
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HIMSS Statement on Release of Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM |
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HIMSS is pleased that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have published their proposed rule for Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Stage 2 (Meaningful Use Stage 2); the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) also published the associated Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:36 |
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Electronic Health Records Association Releases Statement Of Commitment On Patient Safety |
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The Electronic Health Records (EHR) Association recently released its Statement of Commitment to Patient Safety and a Learning Healthcare System in response to the Institute of Medicine's report released last fall, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:36 |
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Cloud-based Medical Image Exchange May Be Efficient, Outcome-Driven Alternative to "Sneakernet," Report Shows |
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Newton, Massachusetts—According to a study released at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference,[1] physicians believe that open-access image-sharing technology can improve patient outcomes. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:15 |
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Healthcare Technology Leaders Identify Staffing Resources as Top Barrier to IT |
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Las Vegas—For the first time in years, information technology (IT) leaders at healthcare organizations did not identify a lack of financial support for IT as an obstacle to implementation; instead, concerns about staffing resources was cited as the key barrier to IT. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 27 February 2012 20:58 |
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AORN Releases Implementation Guide for Prevention of RSIs |
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Denver—The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has published an Implementation Guide for the Recommended practices for prevention of retained surgical items (RSIs). |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:06 |
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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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Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:51 |
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