See the 832 hospitals that earned an 'A' in patient safety
The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday released its spring Hospital Safety Grade, a biannual program that grades U.S. hospitals on how well they prevent errors, accidents and infections.Leapfrog rated 2,639...
View ArticleThese 10 hospitals scored an 'F', pose greatest risk to patients, Leapfrog says
The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday released its spring Hospital Safety Grade, a biannual program that grades U.S. hospitals on how well they prevent errors, accidents and infections.Leapfrog rated 2,639...
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HIMSS17 Survey Results: How Hospitals Select and Deploy Clinical IT Systems...
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Finally! A Cloud-hosted Medical Image Management System to Benefit...
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View ArticleLeapfrog medical errors calculator gives hospitals real cost of deadly mistakes
The Leapfrog Group has unveiled a new interactive tool aimed at shedding light on the impact of medical errors on an employer's covered population.The Lives and Dollars Lost to Medical Errors...
View ArticleNewYork-Presbyterian picks up $4.5 million from CMS to test accountable...
NewYork-Presbyterian, through its Columbia University Medical Center, will receive $4.5 million over five years from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to participate in the newly launched...
View ArticleDevice maker was hush on defibrillator defect that killed patients, FDA says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday sent a warning letter to Abbott, charging the Chicago-based medical device provider with failing to reveal a deadly defect with defibrillators...
View ArticleImageTrend, Kno2 launch secure document exchange tool for EMS
Kno2 and ImageTrend announced a partnership to enable emergency medical services and paramedic teams to more quickly and securely send, receive and query for electronic patient information, the...
View ArticleWHO checklist leads to fewer post-surgery deaths
The rate of patient death after surgery in South Carolina hospitals decreased substantially in hospitals that implemented a checklist developed by the World Health Organization, according to a summary...
View ArticleAMA, Regenstrief launch EHR training platform for medical students
The American Medical Association on Wednesday announced a partnership with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine to launch an electronic health record training program for...
View ArticleVA hospitals outperform mainstream facilities on readmissions, mortality rates
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals outperform non-VA hospitals in readmissions, patient outcomes and mortality rates, according to a recent report from JAMA Internal Medicine.However,...
View Article5 ways retail clinics are poised to upend healthcare
By their very existence, retail clinics could threaten parts of the healthcare system, according to a new report from healthcare research firm Kalorama Information. By Kalorama’s count, there are 2,200...
View ArticleAHRQ floats $1.5 million in health IT research funding
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is soliciting grant applications for two new health IT research initiatives, totaling potentially $1.5 million in funding.One aims to find successful...
View ArticleCerner adds concussion care platform to athlete management system
Healthcare technology giant Cerner plans to integrate its HealtheAthlete technology with NeuroLogix Technologies’ C3Logix concussion management system.Nate Hogan, general manager of HealtheAthlete,...
View ArticleWith EHR-based sepsis detection, Epic and Cerner have different approaches
Recent improvement in hospital surveillance technology for sepsis detection is leading to longer lives, according to a new report from KLAS that examined monitoring tools from blue-chip EHR vendors and...
View ArticleEpic adds Mayo Clinic educational health info to patient-facing apps
Epic will embed authoritative health information from Mayo Clinic in its MyChart and MyChart Bedside portals, aiming to give patients the opportunity to put their healthcare into contextMayo Clinic...
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Patient Experience in the Digital Hospital
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View ArticleMedication errors: Hospitals slow to meet barcode standard, big on CPOE
Only 30 percent of 1,859 measured hospitals fully meet the Leapfrog Group patient safety standard for use of bar code medication administration technology, but a significant 74 percent fully meet the...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyAuthor: Jessica DavisSlideshow Image:...
View ArticleVA, Energy Department roll out big data program to reduce suicide risk
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Energy are teaming up to use big data from the VA and other federal resources to improve veterans healthcare, including suicide prevention,...
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