Hand-offs – patient information communicated from one provider to another – are a source of many errors that lead to patient injury. A new study and associated solution is hoping to cut those errors and increase patient safety.
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can be dangerous to patients when doctors and other healthcare providers spend less time taking a history and more time scanning through often repetitive information in the patient’s electronic chart.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems can cause serious diagnostic and treatment errors
Group Health recently announced it is ending its relationship with Virginia Mason and will now partner with Swedish Medical Center to provide Seattle-based hospital services.
A recent article in HealthDay News described a study that showed wide disparities in the rates of obstetrical complications in hospital across the U.S.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have quietly stopped reporting some serious medical conditions to the public.
Among other things, curtailing our nation’s epidemic of patient harm will require "transparent accountability for harm."
University of Washington Medical Center Ranked 11th Among U.S. Hospitals, but malpractice still occurs due to the nature of UW as a teaching hospital, and system errors including failures to follow up on care, among other things.
More technology doesn’t necessarily mean greater patient safety.
