Medication Safety
CAPS Joins the Fight Against Medication Errors
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.
Environment and Facilities
Univita Health Introduces New Independent Aging Program at Health 2.0
Univita Health officially unveiled an independent aging program designed to help families plan, coordinate and manage the activities needed for seniors to stay independent.
Technology
New Anvita Insight 4.0 Clinical Analytics Engine Drives Better Patient Care
Bridging the gap between health care providers and payers with a powerful tool to improve care coordination and patient outcomes, clinical analytics pioneer Anvita Health™ released the latest version of its powerful Anvita™ Insight clinical analytics engine.
Leadership
New Collaboration Brings Risk Management Education to Healthcare Executives
Four leading education and healthcare organizations announced a new education program to bring world-class practices in strategic decision-making and risk management to healthcare executives and professionals.
Technology
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Plans to Expand Bar Code Scanning to Blood Product Administration
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital has partnered with McKesson to expand the hospital’s use of bar-code scanning technology to blood product administration.
Technology
Bloodstream Infection Surveillance Inconsistent Between Institutions, U-M Study Shows
A new study looking at how hospitals identify pediatric patients who develop catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSI) found significant inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of patients who develop them.
Quality Improvement
Adventist Health System Partners with Language Line Services to Bolster Language Access for Limited English Speaking Patients
Adventist Health System, the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the nation, has partnered with Language Line Services to offer its 43 hospitals and numerous clinics access to a comprehensive suite of interpreting and translation services in an effort to better serve its limited English proficient patients and families.
Technology
IHI Awarded Federal Funding to Develop and Disseminate Innovations in Healthcare Delivery
Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 7, 2010—The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a five-year Master Contract to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to help accelerate adoption of new models of health care delivery nationally. The contract is awarded through AHRQ’s Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) II initiative. … Continued
Environment and Facilities
Medical Simulation Corporation Signs Agreement With a Nationally Ranked Hospital
Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) proudly announces a new agreement with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching-affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a healthcare leader in patient quality, safety, and education.
Risk Management
Trauma Surgeon Develops Multidisciplinary Protocol to Eliminate Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
Critically ill patients on a breathing tube are at risk not only from their injuries or diseases, but also from infections they can contract in the hospital. One of the most common infections is pneumonia from breathing tubes.