The Joint Commission recently announced MJHS, a nonprofit health system in New York, as the first health care organization in the nation to receive its new Community-Based Palliative Care (CBPC) Certification. The certification demonstrates MJHS’s commitment to providing high-quality, community-based palliative care to patients and families in their home.
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Nearly 3,000 alarms: That’s how many notifications just one patient set off in a little over a day while being continuously monitored during a study conducted at the Virtua Health System. When you factor in that nurses can be responsible for four to six patients during the day and seven to 10 during the night shift, it’s no wonder the condition known as “alarm fatigue” has become a serious problem in hospitals.
Read MoreWhat if every association in the US chose to become a custodian of a very focused set of information that is important to biomeds? Biomedical expert Patrick Lynch answers this question and more in the latest installment of his popular column, “The LynchPin.”
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RamSoft and Scannerside have teamed up to offer a CT Dose Module that provides real-time radiation dose tracking, reporting, and analytics. This is timely, since recent CT dose regulations in California, Connecticut, and Texas, in addition to increased public attention and regulatory focus on imaging-related radiation exposure, require imaging providers to be even more careful about radiation-dose tracking.
Read MoreFrom the age of 10, Steve Grimes, set his eyes on a career in engineering. Suffice it to say that he made his dreams come true—as Grimes is the 2016 recipient of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s “HTM Leadership Award.“
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