Quality and Safety

KLAS researchers say that many organizations are moving toward enterprise software for safety, risk and compliance management needs.

The Australian Medical Association has claimed that “chronically poor” communication between general practitioners and hospitals is putting patient safety at risk, and called for the Victorian Government to fix the problem in the state's health system.

A statement from the company followed reports of interrupted services at facilities in Massachusetts and Florida.

"We have shoved so many things to the bedside nurse, between monitoring and documentation I am not sure how they manage the patient anymore."

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said the patient's prescription had not been renewed as it should have been, although the medication could still be viewed in a different area of the system.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced this week that it had expanded the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to include several Industrial Control Systems experts.

Although Hive has only been operational since June 2021, it has reportedly breached hundreds of organizations.

According to a notice published in March, an unknown party accessed the respiratory care provider's systems in July 2021, affecting the information of more than 300,000 people.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released information detailing who should report incidents and what should be included.

Rep. Matt Rosendale asked agency and vendor leadership to put in place a "true" bidirectional interface, calling it "the single greatest technical problem with the Cerner EHR."