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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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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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Indiana Biomedical Society Sees Biomed Role in Population Health Management

Jan 25, 2016 | | 0 |

President of the Indiana Biomedical Society Demetrius Dillard, speaking at the association’s 25th anniversary meeting, said that biomeds have a critical role to play in population health management. That’s because much of the data that eventually drives policy decisions originates from the medical equipment HTM professionals manage. “As we drive innovation in our healthcare world, it allows us to improve care,” Dillard says.

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AAMI Seeks Nominations for Technology Management and Leadership Committees

Jan 20, 2016 | | 0 |

AAMI has issued a call for nominations for openings on its Technology Management Council (TMC), a 24-member committee that represents the interests of biomedical equipment technicians, clinical engineers, and other HTM professionals. AAMI is also seeking volunteers to join its Healthcare Technology Leadership Committee. Nominee submissions are due by March 7, 2016.

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