Patient safety is the top priority and primary business issue among senior executives of IT vendors, according to a survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The society concluded these concerns are underscored by the
More »Patient safety concerns remain a top priority and business issue for CEOs and other senior executives of information technology vendor organizations who responded to the 15th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Superior Consultant Company. This
More »The technology tools doctors use to increase patient safety can be simple or complex
More »The specter of bioterrorism is haunting major medical meetings.
One session this week provided a glimpse of initiatives under way by the HIMSS National Preparedness Response Task Force. Another explained how the Health Resources and Services
More »Over 300 of the country's healthcare executives said that increasing patient safety through the use of electronic medical records and improving system security were their most pressing concerns regarding healthcare IT. More than 700 hospitals
More »MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As healthcare providers continue to build their information technology (IT) strategies around solutions that support patient safety and create an integrated electronic health record (EHR), Siemens Medical
More »The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report To Err Is Human charged that as many as 98,000 people die every year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. Soon after publication of the report, more than 100 organizations joined under the banner of the
More »Implementing technologies that will reduce medical errors and improve patient safety is the chief concern of healthcare IT executives, according to a survey released this week by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
More »The pros and cons of computerized physician order entry
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