A recent Pennsylvania appellate court opinion related to the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (“PSQIA”) continues a trend of judicial erosion of patient safety privilege protections afforded to health care providers by statute.
Notwithstanding their entrance into the healthcare world and lexicon 15 years ago, Patient Safety Organizations continue to represent a source of uncertainty, confusion and frustration with respect to their promise of sweeping confidentiality protection for provider efforts to analyze system errors.
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Code rot is the slow deterioration of software performance over time or its diminishing responsiveness that will eventually lead to software becoming faulty, unusable, or in need of an upgrade.
Back in 2009, healthcare experts, including mainly members of the American Medical Informatics Association, envisioned creating a national databank to track reports of deaths, injuries and near misses linked to issues with the move to have computerized medical records but it never happened.
A report from ECRI Institute outlined the 10 biggest patient safety concerns, and diagnostic errors and improper management of test results in EHRs topped the list.
The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety has unveiled a report that highlights a three-pronged approach for how organizations can make health IT safety a part of their overall safety initiatives.
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
According to a Frost & Sullivan analysis, adverse patient safety events cost the U.S. and European healthcare systems $317.93 billion in 2016. By 2022, the analysis estimates that amount will rise to $383.7 billion.
Clinical trial sponsors must choose technology that not only reduces the burden on trial sites but also provide more complete data on the temperature conditions that an investigational medicinal product has been exposed to.
Last week, Medicare lowered a year's worth of payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries.
Saint Anthony’s complaint appears to be the first time a hospital has sued a rating agency over a contested grade.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
A recent survey from Dimensional Insight takes a closer look at the data governance initiatives that hospitals around the United States are implementing, as well as the challenges they face.
We know that inadequate and inconsistent patient identification places patients at risk for medical errors but the problem goes far beyond protecting individual patient safety
It took a median time period of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for these safety concerns to come to light, the report by Yale School of Medicine said.
Did your hospital make the grade? The Leapfrog Group has unveiled its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade, and 823 hospitals got an A.
Better system testing of hospitals' EHR systems could avoid many of the adverse events cited in the report but unfortunately, this often isn't treated as a priority by hospitals due to resource constraints, according to ECRI Institute's William Marella.