Category: Patient Engagement
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CSC: Teleservices expand patient engagement on many platforms
A new whitepaper published this month by Falls Church, Va.-based consulting firm CSC outlines the new scope of teleservices in healthcare by supplying definitions for what its authors call the four main areas of teleservice: telecare, telehealth, telecoaching and telemedicine. read more Source: CSC: Teleservices expand patient engagement on many platforms
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New AACN Practice Alert outlines evidence-based protocols to improve effective use of clinical alarms
Clinical alarms designed to alert nurses to changes in their patients’ conditions have become a continual barrage of noise that poses a significant threat to patient safety, according to the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. …read more Source: New AACN Practice Alert outlines evidence-based protocols to improve effective use of clinical alarms
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Rigorous interventions result in fewer infections, deaths associated with hospital-onset C. difficile
Rhode Island Hospital has reduced the incidence of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections by 70 percent and reduced annual associated mortality in patients with hospital-associated C. difficile by 64 percent through successive implementation of five rigorous interventions , as reported in the July 2013 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient…
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Readers Write: Time Out for Pre‐Implementation Training
Time Out for Pre-Implementation Training By Tiffany Crenshaw I’d like everyone to join me in giving a hand to the nurses at Marin General Hospital for bringing a bright spotlight to the specific issue of healthcare IT implementations and patient safety, and the broader issue of the enormous pressure hospitals are under today. As recently…
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Patient safety the focus of EHRA vendor code of conduct
After months of speculation, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association has released its EHR Developer Code of Conduct to promote a “transparent set of principles” governing the EHR vendor industry. read more …read more Source: Patient safety the focus of EHRA vendor code of conduct
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NAHQ offers recommendations to preserve integrity of health care quality and patient safety systems
For too long, progress in preventing medication errors and other mistakes that compromise patient safety in healthcare facilities has been unacceptably slow and patients in the majority of U.S. hospitals may not be much safer today than they were 10 years ago, according to an editorial published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality. …read more…
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‘Hybrid’ medical record systems boost likelihood of errors
Using both a paper and an electronic health record system at the same time–a common practice during an entity's transition from paper to EHRs–increases the likelihood of errors, according to a recent study from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. read more …read more Source: 'Hybrid' medical record systems boost likelihood of errors
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Wrong-Patient Medication Errors Examined by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
Over 800 wrong-patient medication errors were reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority in a six-month period with errors most common during the transcribing and administration phases and least often during the dispensing and prescribing phases, according to information in the June Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory released today. “While often thought to occur only during…
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Patient Engagement and Provider Collaborations Across the Healthcare Continuum to Improve Care Transitions
To rise to the challenge of non-compliant patients, providers should ask how they can work together to empower patients toward self-management rather than why patients are non-adherent in the first place, suggests Alicia Goroski, MPH, senior project director for care transitions for the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC). CFMC coordinates the work of state-based…
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Adoption Of Digital Records In The Health Care Industry
Utilization of electronic record keeping systems is becoming increasingly predominant within the healthcare industry due to a wide range of benefits, ultimately resulting in improved quality of care and patient safety, not to mention controlled costs and time savings for healthcare providers. …read more Source: Adoption Of Digital Records In The Health Care Industry