Skip to main content

Quality and Safety

By Bernie Monegain | 11:32 am | February 24, 2015
Geisinger Health System has found a new leader to fill the position of CEO, succeeding Glenn Steele Jr., MD.
By Erin McCann | 11:20 am | February 24, 2015
Think about how long four seconds is. One. Two. Three. Four. Done. It's no time at all, really. But for ischemic heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, it's more than enough time to do serious damage.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:54 am | February 24, 2015
Chalk one up for patient safety. A new report commissioned by the FDA and authored by the Brookings Institution is calling for the creation of a national surveillance system for medical devices.
By Mike Miliard | 12:31 pm | February 20, 2015
The Medical Group Management Association on Friday named its new president and chief executive officer -- a health system chief medical officer, former management consultant and best-selling author.
By Mike Miliard | 12:06 pm | February 20, 2015
A new partnership between a Portland, Oregon, behavioral health services provider and a local health system will use an HIE tool to link the hospital's acute care data with a specialty behavioral health EHR.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:44 am | February 20, 2015
A university health policy center has received a $2.7 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to partner with other organizations for a look at transfusion-related complications in patients with hemoglobin disorders.
By William Bria, MD | 09:26 am | February 20, 2015
Enough talk about information technology's use in the practice of medicine. Health IT must become the practice of medicine.
By Erin McCann | 12:11 pm | February 19, 2015
One big-name health system and a neighboring university have teamed up on a new initiative that will harness data from electronic medical records, de-identifying it and digesting it into a database that can help inform better care decisions.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:42 am | February 19, 2015
Two people who died at the UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center are among seven patients that UCLA has identified as infected by the deadly superbug CRE, the Los Angeles Times reports today.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:51 am | February 18, 2015
St. Clair Hospital of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a 328-bed acute care facility, has been named a 2014 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.