Quality & Safety

The academic medical center cites years of misfiring alerts and wireless monitoring challenges that it says taxed its staff and put patient safety at risk.

New prompts set into EHR help clinicians think more critically about how they help patients manage pain.

Whether because of a nefarious manmade or natural disaster, hospital IT shops often find themselves strapped during a crisis. The government and private sector have already developed considerable resources to help. Here’s a look at those.

Most affected are poor people with no insurance.

Protecting patients and their data should be as important as basic cleanliness, experts say.

Two-way data sharing can help hospitals gain ground on quality improvement initiatives.

I-PASS Patient Safety Institute is helping the academic hospital achieve safer shift changes with game-based training, EHR mnemonics and benchmarking tools in the cloud.

The agency, seeking to ease EHR reporting burdens, will also allow both 2015 and 2014-certified EHRs for 2018. 

Report offers advice on how to do it right – the way patients want.

The new risk-sharing project, which seeks to eliminate redundancies and maximize sourcing gains will unfold over eight years.