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• in Business
  Electronic Health Records Make Doctors Accountable and Some Don't Like That
  Electronic health records allow precise audits of medical errors to see exactly how a patient was injured. Some in the medical informatics industry think that's bad.
  by patmalone51 / on Feb 13, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Two Steps Forward, One Step Back in Hospital Patient Safety
  Hospitals aren't living up to their duty to report events that cause harm to patients.
  by patmalone51 / on Jan 8, 2012
• in Technology
  Robot Surgery of the Prostate: No Evidence of Better Outcomes for Patients
  "Gizmo idolatry" may be at play in widespread adoption of the da Vinci robot for surgery. A proven track record of better outcomes isn't there, as another study finds.
  by patmalone51 / on Jan 4, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “patient safety”

 

• Parkland errors inspire state-wide patient safety law

  
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  Urged by care failures at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law, a patient safety measure, The Dallas Morning News reported. read more
  4 days ago

• More than 500 healthcare suppliers display cutting-edge solutions in patient care

  
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  Take a look inside Premiers 2013 Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition going on now in San Antonio, TX. More than 4,400 healthcare leaders from across the country are here for networking, collaborating and sharing best practices with some of the best minds in the industry. Healthcare ...
  5 days ago

• Three Big HIPAA Myths

  
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      As a healthcare consultant, it is not unusual to be asked about HIPAA regulations on a weekly basis. Three questions come up regularly and seem to cause the most confusion when discussing HIPAA. I call them the Three Big HIPAA Myths – you can’t place medical charts on exam room doors, you can’t [...] The ...
  5 days ago

• Compounded Drugs: Congress Takes an Interest in Growing Compound Drug Industry

  
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  Compounded drugs are a new hot issue in the pharmaceuticals industry and in Congress . There are little data about compounding pharmacies, but a new Congressional Research Service brief gives a comprehensive overview. Compounded Drugs Personalize Drug Treatments: Compounded drugs are created when a ...
  6 days ago

• Voice recognition error causes EHR misdiagnosis

  
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  Undue reliance on electronic health record data without actually examining a patient can have negative consequences on care, according to a recent article in the Atlantic, by Richard Gunderman , M.D.,... read more
  6 days ago

• The Latest Malpractice Rage: Big Brother, Prejudicial Medicine

  
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  At the October 29, 2007 meeting of a New York State medicalmalpractice task force, the topic of which was patient safety, Dr. RonaldMarcus, Director of Clinical Operations at the Department of OB/GYN at Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of the Harvard Medical School, spoke.  His presentation ...
  1 week ago

• California fines 10 hospitals a total of $625K for patient safety risks

  
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  California issues penalties against 10 hospitals with fines totaling $625,000 for not complying with requirements that prevent patient safety risks, according to the California Department of Public Health. read more
  1 week ago

• How Antis Show They Don’t Give A Damn About Patient Safety

  
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  Quickie post before I head out for the day: I read this morning on LifeSiteNews (before coffee, even – yes, I know, apparently I’m a masochist) that the antis are all in a fervor that a Planned Parenthood women’s health center in Delaware has been reopened by the Delaware Department of Health. Now, given ...
  1 week ago

• “The Scientific Basis for Choosing to Be a Patient: Forearmed is Forewarned”

  
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  By Thomas Emerick First Posted at Cracking Health Costs on 6/5/2013 Nortin Hadler, M.D., author of The Citizen Patient, a splendid read, wrote a terrific article for Scientific American.  Dr. Hadler is one of the most enlightened healthcare writers today. He writes, “Today health is a commodity, disease is a ...
  1 week ago

• Telluride Alumnus Shares QI Project Inspired by Conversations at Resident Summer Camp 2012

  
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  By Tracy Granzyk MS First Posted at Educate the Young on 6/6/2013 On the closely approaching eve of the 2013 Telluride Patient Safety Educational Roundtable & Student/Resident Summer Camps (#TPSER9), Nate DeFelice MD, a 2012 alumnus, sent us the following report of a project that was inspired by his time at the ...
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• Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Encourage Patient Safety Improvements

  
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  Every year, thousands of people are seriously injured or killed by surgical errors and other medical mistakes, which can lead to malpractice lawsuits. Writing recently in the New York Times, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, made a compelling case that malpractice lawsuits are playing a ...
  1 week ago

• Low-value care for acute chest pain in the ED

  
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  By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 6/4/2013 Last week, the family medicine residency inpatient service that I supervise admitted several patients from the emergency department with acute chest pain that had resolved. Most of them had no history of cardiovascular disease, but were deemed to ...
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• Transform patient safety in the ED into safety framework

  
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  A recent study in the  American Journal of Medical Quality  examines the need to measure patient safety in the emergency department and suggests four measurement areas. read more
  1 week ago

• Case Study on Situational Awareness and Patient Safety

  
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  Study about Situational Awareness and Patient Safety Human Factors (HF) is a discipline addressing human behaviour, abilities, limitations, and relationship to the work environment (physical, organizational, cultural), and applies it to the design and evaluation of safer and more effective tools, machines, ...
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• Surveillance under pressure

  
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  Theres a great success story now published online in ICHE. The CDC, using National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) and National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) data, estimates that 100,000 to 200,000 central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) have been prevented since 1990 through ...
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• QD: News Every Day--Statins may be associated with arthropathies, injuries, pain in physically active people

  
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  Statins were associated with increased musculoskeletal conditions, arthropathies, injuries, and pain than among matched nonusers, especially in physically active individuals, a study found. Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study using propensity score matching in a military health system to determine ...
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• Hybrid medical record systems boost likelihood of errors

  
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  Using both a paper and an electronic health record system at the same time--a common practice during an entitys transition from paper to EHRs--increases the likelihood of errors, according to a recent study from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

  
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  By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 6/2/2013 Approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a new drug is a critical waypoint along the path to profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Unfortunately, recent case studies have illustrated that FDA approval does not ...
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• TransCelerate BioPharma shares its first position paper: RIsk-Based Monitoring

  
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  Risk-based monitoring can help revolutionize clinical trials.  It helps companies focus on patient safety, quality of clinical data and can help to drive efficiency. Trancelerate Biopharmas goal for this particular matter is to Develop an industry-wide standard and approach for risk-based monitoring of clinical ...
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• QD: News Every Day--Now theres a weekday effect for hospital mortality, too

  
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  There may be a higher risk of death for patients who have elective surgical procedures carried out later in the working week compared to Monday, as well as the more famous "weekend effect," a retrospective study found. To assess the association between mortality and the day of elective surgical procedure, researchers ...
  2 weeks ago

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