By Andis Robeznieks |
March 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Healthcare delivery continues to be unsafe and will probably remain that way for some time unless medical schools make substantial improvements in how they teach patient safety, according to Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care, a report issued by the National... FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
March 14, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has developed a set of guidelines aimed at helping providers create drug-prescribing standards for their computerized physician order entry systems. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Medical schools are not doing an adequate job of teaching “basic knowledge and the development of skills required for the provision of safe patient care,” according to “Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care,” a report issued by the National... FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 05, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Billing data may not be a reliable source of hospital adverse event information and voluntary hospital incident reporting systems may be an unreliable source of information for patient safety organizations, according to Adverse Events in Hospitals: Methods for Identifying Events, a new... FULL STORY »
By David Burda |
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger urged the healthcare industry to improve patient safety by learning from the U.S. commercial airline industry. FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The University of Pennsylvania Hospital's prostate cancer brachytherapy treatment program has again come under fire following publication of a report filed by the 718-bed hospital indicating that radioactive seeds used to treat cancer had been implanted in the wrong area of a patient's body. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Connecticut's health commissioner would publicly report deadly and serious medical errors or preventable illness or injury at the state's hospitals and outpatient surgical centers under a bill endorsed by the state's attorney... FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond |
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription A new report about the high death toll related to healthcare-associated infections was another reminder to some experts that patient safety is not getting the attention it deserves in the national health reform debate. FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
February 26, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee held a hearing to begin looking at ways to tighten regulation of radiation procedures and improve patient safety. FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
February 25, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Seventy-six patients undergoing stereotactic radiation treatment between 2004 and September 2009 at Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth for brain and other difficult-to-treat tumors received doses 50% higher than prescribed, according to a news release from the three-hospital system. FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
February 25, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance, a trade and lobby group representing radiology equipment manufacturers, said its membership has adopted an industrywide commitment to add new radiation-dose safeguards to CT machinery. FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond |
February 22, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Hospitals have another tool to prevent patient errors after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week introduced the first national surveillance system to track adverse events in patients who receive blood transfusions. FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond |
February 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have introduced the nation’s first surveillance system to track adverse events in patients who receive blood transfusions, and the Atlanta-based agency is encouraging healthcare facilities to enroll in the new network. FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond |
February 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The rate of MRI and CT/PET scans—either ordered or provided—tripled between 1996 and 2007, according to the federal government's 33rd annual report to the president and Congress on the nation's health. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans |
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Consumers Union, perhaps best known for its ratings of household electronics and cars, became one of the latest to expand a hospital comparison Web site with the release earlier this month of how often hospitals fail to prevent costly, potentially deadly and avoidable infections. FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Industry stakeholders said last week that they stand ready to work with the Food and Drug Administration on its newly announced initiative to reduce patient exposure to excess radiation during imaging procedures. FULL STORY »
By Vince Galloro |
February 14, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services said that it will add 35 investigators to speed its response to complaints about nursing homes. FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
February 09, 2010
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Free Access The Food and Drug Administration said it will launch a radiation exposure-reduction initiative targeting CT, nuclear medicine and fluoroscopy imaging scans. Each of the technologies uses high doses of radiation and also expose patients to ionizing radiation, which can increase patients' lifetime... FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea |
February 08, 2010
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Free Access A rash of reports highlighting patient exposure to excessive radiation has radiology providers, equipment manufacturers and regulators scrambling to address safety and protocol concerns even as they acknowledge uncertainty over how best to prevent such mishaps in the future. FULL STORY »
By Meghan Streit |
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The Commonwealth Fund, John A. Hartford Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust last month released a guide to assist healthcare leaders in reducing preventable hospital readmissions. FULL STORY »
December 07, 2009
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Free Access In an exclusive interview with Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda, Mark Chassin, president of the Joint Commission, discusses his efforts to refocus the nation's largest healthcare accrediting body on what matters most to hospitals and other healthcare organizations and to the patients they treat. FULL STORY »
November 13, 2009
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WEBINAR The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” sent shock waves throughout the healthcare industry with its estimate that about 98,000 patients die annually because of preventable medical errors. The findings immediately cast a shadow on the... FULL STORY »
July 20, 2009
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Free Access Leapfrog CEO Leah Binder talks with Modern Healthcarereporter Jean DerGurahian about healthcare quality and transparency. FULL STORY »
February 12, 2010
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Basic Web Registration I think it is good the Food and Drug Administration is going to require some “controls” to be built in. However, I hope they don't generate another burdensome amount of paperwork. FULL STORY »
December 16, 2009
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Basic Web Registration Every effort must be made to reduce radiation exposure. But in this era of evidence-based medicine, I would like to see better epidemiologic data on the true risks of low level radiation exposure. Presenting projections of cases of cancer caused by diagnostic imaging remains hypothetical. FULL STORY »
November 20, 2009
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Basic Web Registration The government, the media and insurance companies keep telling hospitals and doctors that they over-order and over-prescribe, and that is one big factor in the ever-upward march of healthcare costs. So, an independent body comes out with evidence that says mammogram screening in those under 40 has... FULL STORY »
September 08, 2009
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Basic Web Registration I don't mind having open records for nurses. Most of us have clean, clear records with our nursing practice, but if you are going to do it for nurses, you better do it for physicians also. FULL STORY »
