DocuSys’ Presurgical Care Management System Successfully Installed at Indiana Regional Medical Center
DocuSys, Inc., a market-leading provider of innovative systems for anesthesia information management, medication management and presurgical care management, announced today that Indiana Regional Medical Center, Indiana, PA, has gone live with the Presurgical Care Management System, a comprehensive system to manage presurgical patient assessment and readiness for surgery.
ABQAURP News
ABQAURP News
ASQ Healthcare Division Newsletter
ASQ Healthcare Division Newsletter
HITECH Interoperetta
For comic inspiration and musical bravura in the HIT space, nothing beats Dr. Ross D. Martin’s Interoperetta in Three Acts, an appreciation of HITSP, CCHIT, AHIC and more.
The MRI Safety Gap
In healthcare, particularly in patient safety, there is a cultural predisposition towards excellence. There’s a fundamental desire to create better, safer environments in support of care. That applies to staff qualifications, policies & procedures, medical technology, and — usually — standards for accreditation.
Philips Emergin Launches New Integration to iPhone OS, Enhancing Flexibility for Alert Notifications to Caregivers
Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, announced the availability of an
interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalté
communication server to deliver alert message notifications from
Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. This integration
facilitates the orchestration of voice, alert, and text communications
by leveraging the flexibility of the Apple platform.
Editor’s Notebook: Participatory Medicine
In late October, I attended three conferences: Health 2.0, the Center for Connected Health symposium, and the annual congress of the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technologies. Although these organizations have somewhat different audiences (Health 2.0 is more a community than organization), their conferences share a focus on technology, especially applications and devices that give patients new ways to manage their health and medical care.
AHRQ: What Do Patients Want? Hospital Compare Asks Their Opinions
While not spread evenly, our national investment into improving the quality of care has begun to pay dividends. So far, the payback has been modest: Quality inched upward by 2.3% between 1994 and 2005, according to a 2007 national report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Health IT & Quality: Transparency: For All Eyes Only
One early morning in September 1982, a 12-year-old girl awoke in her home in the outskirts of Chicago with moderate cold symptoms. Her loving parents prepared a tall glass of water and one Extra Strength Tylenol® capsule for her to take before sending her back to bed. A few hours later, Mr. and Mrs. Kellerman awoke to find their daughter Mary critically ill on the bathroom floor. Her parents rushed her to the hospital, and she died a short time later.
Health Policy: Pigs, Drugs, and Terrorists
Making drugs is messy. Take heparin. You raise pigs and then slaughter them. You isolate the pig intestines and cook them. Then you scrape the intestinal insides, dry them, and get them to a factory to undergo more processing (Harris, 2008).