Quality and Safety

The nonprofit patient safety organization found that nearly  40 percent of potentially harmful drug orders weren’t flagged by existing software systems, including medication orders for the wrong condition or the wrong dose based on things like a patient’s size, other illnesses or likely drug interactions. 

Clinical decision support misfires are commonplace but often hard to detect, according to a close examination of CDS systems at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston published in the most recent Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

New research found variations in cholesterol levels that drew concern because they could potentially determine whether a physician at point of care would prescribe medication to a patient.

Physicians are embracing electronic prescribing more rapidly than ever before, according to new data from Surescripts – especially in New York.

The National Quality Forum has published its guidance for the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

Though more hospitals are reporting infection rates publicly, a new report from The Leapfrog Group shows that more than half of hospitals across the country still grapple with sometimes deadly healthcare-associated infections.

The I-STOP legislation, first passed in 2012, aims to combat controlled substance abuse. A provision set to take effect at the end of this month requires doctors to prescribe almost everything electronically.

Step-by-step tools help providers unlock data to help prevent cardiovascular events.

Experts say healthcare providers need to turn up the pressure on tech vendors to create more intuitive products.

Christopher Harle will work with University of Florida researchers to develop software to help patients better understand what they are granting access to when they approve use of their electronic health records for research purposes.