Effective, efficient communication is key to effective, efficient patient flow. If there are communication breakdowns between departments, there’s often confusion and delays in getting patients to the right level of care.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Patient Safety Awareness Week kicked off on Sunday.
After being transferred from Florida Hospital East in Orlando to Florida Hospital Orlando for hand surgery, a man spent two days in a hospital bed in a hallway, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Three medical professionals at Blountstown, Fla.-based Calhoun Liberty Hospital have been fired for the way they handled the case of Barbara Dawson, a 57-year-old woman who died after being forcibly removed from the hospital last December.
Sotera Wireless recently announced that the company is now a contracted HealthTrust supplier in the wireless patient monitoring category.
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Last week, Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center found lead in its water. But now officials claim the level of lead in the water has declined, according to NJ1015.com.
Nearly five years ago, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston attempted to solve overcrowding in its emergency department with a $500 million expansion. However, according to a recent article in the Boston Globe, the ED at MGH is once again dealing…
ExSpiron Minute Ventilation Monitoring reveals respiratory depression events which are not detected by continuous respiratory rate measurement. New findings show that after surgery, clinicians would miss over 80% of respiratory depression episodes if they relied on respiratory rate alone.
One of Atlantic Health System's hospitals — Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center — last Thursday found lead in its water, according to NJ.com.
In a recent press release, MRO, a leader in the secure, compliant and efficient exchange of Protected Health Information (PHI), announced today that it will demonstrate its record integrity technology, IdentiScan®, during HIMSS16, in booth 6454.