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DuPree named CMO, VP of Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare
By Maureen McKinney | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Loeb, Joint Commission executive, dies at 63
By Andis Robeznieks | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Jerod Loeb, the Joint Commission executive vice president for healthcare quality and measurement, died at his home Oct. 9 after a two-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 63.
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2013 Up and Comers: Dr. Peter Fleischut
By Melanie Evans | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
As an anesthesia resident, Dr. Peter Fleischut approached leadership at New York-Presbyterian Hospital with a proposal: Why not create a formal forum for his fellow residents to join in patient-safety initiatives?
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N.H. hospital notifies patients of possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob exposure
By Jaimy Lee | September 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A hospital in Manchester, N.H., has notified eight patients who may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from neurosurgery instruments.
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Medical scribes lack consensus on training, certification
By Joseph Conn | September 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Certification of medical scribes does not satisfy concerns about whether scribes should be allowed to use computerized order entry as part of the meaningful-use program for electronic health records, the federal government says.
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AMA, Joint Commission release strategies to reduce overused treatments
By Jaimy Lee | July 11, 2013
A group of healthcare providers have recommended strategies to reduce five commonly overused and sometimes unnecessary medical treatments or interventions, such as the use of antibiotics for viral upper respiratory infections and early elective deliveries.
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Targeting adverse events | Effort aims to ensure health IT causing no harm
By Joseph Conn | July 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The healthcare industry, with the federal government at the helm, is trying to find whether health information technology systems are doing patients serious harm, and if so, to what extent.
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Vital Signs
Joint Commission puts focus on EHR, patient safety
By Joseph Conn | July 03, 2013
The healthcare industry, with the federal government at the helm, is setting sail on a voyage into the unknown: whether and to what extent patients are suffering harm from the systems that providers have spent many billions of dollars buying, and the feds many billions in...
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HHS signs off on IT patient-safety plan
By Joseph Conn | July 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
HHS has released its final plan to address patient safety issues arising from the use of health information technology. But putting in place a framework to monitor and then act on those issues remains a work in progress.
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GAO seeks clear standards on advanced-imaging scans
By Joe Carlson | May 31, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A lack of clear rules governing providers that perform advanced-imaging scans could undermine the federal goal of limiting Medicare patients' exposure to radiation.
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