Patient Safety news and information

Getting a flu shot will be a requirement this year for all healthcare personnel in Los Angeles County. County Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding issued an order Tuesday mandating that healthcare personnel in each licensed acute care hospital, skilled nursing facility, and intermediate...
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It's not easy to start a movement, but a new group of physicians and healthcare researchers are hoping to do so. They are looking to the Institute of Medicine to bolster their efforts to reduce diagnosis errors that lead to delayed or inappropriate treatments.
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While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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The Joint Commission has named Dr. Erin DuPree chief medical officer and VP of the organization's Center for Transforming Healthcare.
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Nearly 15 years after the patient-safety movement started, deaths and injuries from poor care continue to be all too common in U.S. hospitals. For example, studies show that between 21% and 63% of urinary catheters, which frequently cause painful infections...
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Chief information officers aren't running their healthcare organizations, but maybe they should, says Jamie Heywood, chairman and co-founder of PatientsLikeMe.
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A British-born woman who mysteriously disappeared from her San Francisco hospital bed was found dead 17 days later in a stairwell in the same medical center, after a massive search that saw tour bus operators hand out flyers, officials said on Wednesday.
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While Congress focuses on the budget impasse, there's also acknowledgement that healthcare IT will play a key role in improving our healthcare system, according to CHIME's president and CEO.
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The bad news is, if your healthcare organization hasn't yet had a privacy and security breach hit the media, it probably will, consultant Steven Bennett says.
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New research calls into question the validity of using post-operative blood clot rates as a metric of hospital quality. According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, rates of venous thromboembolism—a term that includes pulmonary embolism and deep...
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