Impact on patient safety, hospital stay lead list of vendor priorities for scanner enhancements.
More »Of all the things uttered by President Clinton, the best remembered may be his questioning of what “‘is” is, an ignominious line prompted by an investigation that led eventually to his impeachment. Today that question can be legitimately asked with only a change in capitalization and pronunciation...
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Unnecessary or inappropriate diagnostic procedures are not only costly, they can be dangerous. X-ray based procedures expose patients to radiation. Ones involving...
More »Have you discovered that a physician (or other provider) in your practice may be putting patients at risk? You must act — but be careful about how.
More »Safety is a topic that should be at the forefront of the minds of all those who work in healthcare. Accidents can affect both healthcare workers and patients.
More »The deadline for proposals for the new EU R&D framework program for 2007 to 2013 (FP7) is 8 May 2007.
More »Enrollment in clinical trials is crucial
to continued scientific discovery and
improved patient care.
More »More than 1.5 million Americans are injured by drug errors yearly, and at least a quarter of them are preventable, according to a recent report issued by the Institute of Medicine.
More »In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina crisis, untold numbers of medical records may have been lost. Many evacuees forgot or misplaced their medications, and some do not remember the names of all their medications. With no access to previous medical records, the evacuees’ doctors have no way of...
More »When transmitted by e-mail, prescription information can populate the pharmacy's dispensing software, eliminating data entry and the potential for transcription errors on the pharmacy's end.
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