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Vital Signs
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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Preparedness under assault | While Boston's response to bombing showed crucial role of planning, strides elsewhere in emergency readiness could be undermined by budget cuts
By Jaimy Lee and Maureen McKinney | April 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
For public health officials across the country, the Boston Marathon bombing and the blast at a Texas fertilizer plant last week served as a wake-up call: How would their communities cope?
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Lives at risk | Hospitals face hurdles addressing alarm fatigue
By Maureen McKinney | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The cacophony of beeps coming from patient monitors, infusion pumps and other alarm-equipped devices can desensitize clinicians and lead to serious adverse events—even deaths.
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Joint Commission warns about dangers from alarm fatigue
By Maureen McKinney | April 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The nation's largest hospital accreditation organization has issued a warning to hospitals about the dangers of alarm fatigue, which can occur when clinicians become desensitized to the incessant beeping of medical device alarms.
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Customize safety efforts to fit hospitals' needs: Chassin
By Melanie Evans | March 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Healthcare must be more aggressive in measuring and customizing quality improvement, Dr. Mark Chassin said.
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Andis Robeznieks Physician News Blog
Blog: TransforMED pioneered medical home consulting
February 26, 2013
Everyone, it seems, wants in on the medical home business, but the medical home practice implementation consulting service TransforMED got in on the ground floor.
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