Today UL, a world leader in advancing safety, goes to market with new healthcare advisory services in collaboration with Value Capture LLC. The services aim to guide healthcare executives seeking to transform the performance of their organizations with a unifying focus on safety and quality.

Doximity, the largest professional network for physicians, is partnering with Stanford and UCSF to take the lead in bringing mobile technology revolution into medical education and healthcare communication. This iPhone/Android joint initiative between Doximity and two of the top five ranked medical schools in the country will connect thousands of graduates across dozens of specialties and multiple generations of doctors.

Radisphere, the largest and fastest-growing national radiology group in the United States, has announced that it is the first radiology group to voluntarily participate in Clarity Group Inc.’s Patient Safety Organization (PSO). Clarity PSO, a Division of Clarity Group, Inc., was one of the first PSOs to be federally listed and certified by the federal Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Sage Products Inc. was honored by the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society at the opening of the WOCN’s 44^th annual conference June 10 in Charlotte, N.C., for its longtime support of the organization’s research mission. Sage Vice President of Marketing Terry Boersma accepted the award on behalf of the company.

Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have announced the winner of the Investing in Innovation initiative’s (i2) Reporting Device Adverse Events Challenge.

By Susan Carr

As I prepare each year for the National Patient Safety Foundation’s (NPSF) Patient Safety Congress, I look forward to the panel discussion that features members of the Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) discussing a current topic in a “town hall” format. The Congress was held last week (May 23–25) at the National Harbor complex near Washington, DC.

The Healthcare Technology Safety Institute (HTSI)—part of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Foundation—has been awarded a $328,660 grant by the CareFusion Foundation to fund a three-year national study on key issues surrounding the administration of intravenous (IV) medication using smart pumps. The goal of this first-ever study, to be coordinated by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is to evaluate the types of errors that may occur when using smart pumps to administer IV medications, and what can be done about them.

UHC, an alliance of 116 academic medical centers with 264 affiliated hospitals in the U.S., and Datix, a U.K.-based provider of patient safety technology solutions, today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver new patient safety software and improve quality in U.S. hospitals.

B. Braun Medical Inc. will be attending APIC  2012 from June 4 through 6 in San Antonio, Texas displaying a range of safety-engineered devices designed to advance protection from infection in the healthcare setting for both patients and healthcare workers. The company’s new Introcan Safety^® 3 Closed IV Catheter will be in the spotlight, directly addressing issues pertaining to exposure to blood borne pathogens and catheter related complications.