The alert provides recommended safety actions healthcare organizations can take to reduce the risks of errors caused by the misuse of smart infusion pumps.
PartsSource announces the launch of PartsSource Pro 2020—which, company officials say, offers the industry’s first alternative equipment maintenance (AEM) database.
Massachusetts General Hospital Systems Engineering Manager Rick Schrenker has a confession to make: He had a hidden agenda in an article he wrote for 24x7 Magazine over 10 years ago. And he hasn’t written about it until now.
In this Soapbox article, Rick Schrenker, a systems engineering manager at Massachusetts General Hospital, looks at what he calls “The Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome” affecting HTM—and cites another well-known figure, this time the fictional Mighty Mouse, as negatively impacting the perception of the field.
The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum have named the recipients of the 2018 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. The Eisenberg Awards recognize initiatives that are consistent with the aims of the National Quality Strategy: better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending.
The new portal, launched by Genesis Healthcare, uses mobile technology and the company's SaaS software to help medical device manufacturers obtain real-time data on consignment inventory and other stock located at their client hospitals.