Chicago, April 21, 2011—The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), in partnership with the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), launched the 2011 ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment® for hospitals.

Wayne, Pa. and Denver; March 14, 2011—MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health management solutions, and Health Language, Inc. (HLI), a global leader in medical terminology management, announced that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership that will enable MEDecision to help its healthcare payer and provider customers transition to, comply with and capitalize on the industry’s forthcoming ICD-10 requirements.

Dedham, Massachusetts, February 28, 2011—AliMed has announced the release of EZRock, a state-of-the-art patient shifter that allows for easy transfers between bed and chair (or bed and commode), with no lifting.

Portland, Oregon,February 9, 2011—AllMed Healthcare Management, an independent review organization, has taken the lead in demonstrating how hospitals can now affordably and effectively achieve their risk management goals.

For the first time, standards to guide the content, language, format, and appearance of prescription medication labels to reflect how patients read and understand medication instructions are being proposed on a national level.

Aetna announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Medicity, a health information exchange technology company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

With its third patent this year, clinical analytics pioneer Anvita Health has generated another point-of-care innovation with a method for using electronic medical record data combined with comparative effectiveness and formulary plan data to generate a highly personalized drug therapy regimen.

Medication errors are one of the most widespread and preventable causes of harm in modern healthcare. Now Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) and more than a dozen other leaders in the field are teaming up to promote best practices to prevent them.