In this article, Ramon Pagansantiago, chief of the Honolulu-based Tripler Army Medical Center’s equipment management branch, sits down with 24×7 Magazine to discuss how the hospital’s location is both an advantage and a challenge from a device management perspective and how his team embodies “Ohana”—the Hawaiian word for “family.”
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As we are nearing the second quarter of 2018, healthcare technology consultant Dave Harrington, PhD, reflects on two noteworthy articles that have appeared in recent issues of 24×7 Magazine. Here’s what they say—and why they matter, according to Harrington.
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The recipients of this year’s John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards include a network of children’s hospitals that has saved an estimated 10,000 children from harm and a large health system that has achieved a more than 60% decrease in hospital-acquired patient harms.
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Global professional services firm Huron and the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, a nonprofit affiliate of The Joint Commission, announced that they have entered into a collaborative agreement to create a series of workshops centered around high reliability strategies for healthcare organizations.
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The European Union has instituted a proposal to boost cooperation among EU member states for assessing healthcare technologies. After all, EU officials say, more assessments could lead to effective, innovative health tools reaching patients faster.
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