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Health IT Partnership Releases First Toolkit on Safe Use of Copy/Paste

Health IT Partnership Releases First Toolkit on Safe Use of Copy/Paste

Feb 29, 2016 | , | 0 |

The rise of electronic health records has led to increased adoption of time-saving features like copy/paste and copy/forward. A new publicly available toolkit from the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety examines these common practices and presents four recommendations for their safe use in a healthcare setting. Health IT Safe Practices: Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste is the Partnership’ first release in a series of planned evidence-based recommendations designed to improve health IT safety.

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How to Write a Medical Equipment Management Plan

How to Write a Medical Equipment Management Plan

Feb 16, 2016 | | 4 |

A good medical equipment management plan is a thing of beauty. The bad ones are often confusing, disorganized, out of date, incomplete, and downright painful to read. To make life easier for your Joint Commission surveyor, your superiors, and yourself, keep these tips in mind as you write, edit, and polish your MEMP.

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Texas Children’s Hospital Earns ECRI’s Health Devices Achievement Award

Feb 4, 2016 | , , | 0 |

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston is the winner of ECRI Institute’s 10th Annual Health Devices Achievement Award. The honor recognizes an outstanding initiative undertaken by an ECRI Institute member healthcare institution that improves patient safety, reduces costs, or otherwise facilitates better strategic management of health technology. Texas Children’s won for its alarm management initiative.

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Crafting a Culture of Total Safety: Tejal Gandhi, National Patient Safety Foundation

Crafting a Culture of Total Safety: Tejal Gandhi, National Patient Safety Foundation

Feb 1, 2016 | | 0 |

Last December, an expert panel commissioned by the National Patient Safety Foundation published a report enumerating eight recommendations to achieve what the authors call “total systems safety” across the healthcare enterprise. Tejal Gandhi, MD, president and chief executive officer of the NPSF, convened the panel and oversaw drafting of the report, “Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years After To Err Is Human.” She recently spoke to 24×7 about healthcare’s slow progress in the patient safety arena and creating a more holistic approach to patient well-being.

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