Barbara L. Olson will present on actionable ways to improve outcomes in the New Year Bellevue, WA Pharmacy OneSource, software-as-a-service provider of the Sentri7 real-time clinical surveillance system, is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar...

What on earth was I thinking when I made the prediction? Eight years ago I said by the end of 2010, 80 percent of America’s hospitals with 100 or more beds would have bar-code point-of-care (BPOC) systems in place for matching medications and IVs with...

(Bellevue WA)—The Neuenschwander Company of Bellevue WA is pleased to announce that its president, Mark Neuenschwander, will receive the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ (ISMP) Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010. The ISMP’s highest award...

By Mary Mosquera, published on Goverment Health IT Monday, November 22, 2010 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to boost the effectiveness of Medicare’s fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the...

This I’ve been thinking was written on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of GS1 Healthcare and was published in the Autumn 2010 edition of GS1 Healthcare News. I’ve been thinking about connecting dots. The year I was born, Warner Brothers...

Being identified at University of Wisconsin Health is now a hands-on experience. Check-in clerks are using devices that scan vein patterns in palms to link patients to their electronic medical records. The scans can also help emergency room staff...

Hospitals that had their operating room staff participate in a medical team training program showed a significantly lower surgical mortality rate than centers not involved in the program, according to the results of a study appearing in the Journal of the...

I’ve been thinking about game plans for improving the accuracy of patient identification with bar coding at the point of care (BPOC). I’ve borrowed my title for this two-part article from NBC’s Friday Night Lights. It’s the mantra Coach Taylor...

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. David Blumenthal says there is a "raging debate" in Washington over whether the development of electronic medical records should be driven by standards or competition. Former Secretary of the...

I’ve been thinking about hospital game plans for improving the accuracy of patient identification. The Joint Commission’s (TJC) number-one National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for 10 years running expects hospitals to “improve the accuracy of...