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von Eschenbach Requests Funds

The Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Andrew C. von Eschenbach, sent a letter to Congress requesting an immediate cash infusion for the agency. He requested $275 million to support safety of medical devices, drugs, and foods, as reported by the New York Times. more...

May 20, 2008 Related topics: Legal & legislative, Standards, Quality, Safety, Errors, Industry & Market

NIST Approves Positive Identification Standards

The American National Standards Institute adopted the Positive Identification for Patient Safety, Part I, Medication Delivery Standards (pdf). This new set of guidelines is designed to assure that drugs, devices, patients, and other processes involved in the care delivery process are correctly identified. The complete guidelines are available on the HIBCC website. more...

April 25, 2008 Related topics: Standards, Partnerships & Consortia, Standardization

Catheter Ablation Improves ICDs

The last issue of the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007 includes a report from Harvard researchers...

Nurses Efficiency Improved with Information Technology

A recent report issued by the American Academy of Nursing’s Workforce Commission identified over 1,200 information technology tools...

Carestream Health RIS, PACS Solutions Deployed

The NHS in Scotland, the Scotland Executive, commenced a program to implement PACS countrywide using a program from...

Factors Limiting EHR Implementation and Adoption

A recent article posted in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) describes some of the factors limiting...

System Assesses Performance of Colonoscopy

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American College of Gastroenterology have partnered together to develop a...

Simplified Patient Flow Fostered with Philips Systems

Philips Healthcare announced that their array of tools for clinical information solutions have been modified to streamline workflow,...

Clinicians Increasingly Support E-Prescribing

A study conducted on behalf of the Southeastern Michigan ePrescribing Initiative (SEMI) revealed that physicians who have the...

Integration of Health IT Systems for Medication Described

The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) completed a survey, the ASHP Survey of U.S. Hospital and Health...

Bare Metal and Drug Eluting Stents Compared

A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine compared to the utility of drug...

Sensitivity of MRI for Breast Cancer Documented

A meta-analysis from a research team in the Netherlands recently evaluated rates of detection utilizing magnetic resonance imaging...

New Chest Compression System Launched in U.S.

Through a distribution agreement with JOLIFE AB, Physio-Control, Incorporated will commence marketing the LUCAS Chest Compression System in...

Guidelines for Software Purchasing

Health Data Management recently posted an article detailing tips on both selecting and purchasing software for healthcare agencies....

Pressure Ulcers Decrease with Statewide Initiative

The New Jersey Hospital Association spearheaded a statewide effort to reduce the incidence of bedsores that utilized basic,...

IMRT Associated with Fewer Side Effects

The International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics includes an article in the current edition that notes the...

Sonora Launches Device to Assist Endoscopy Maintenance

Sonora Medical Systems added a new device, as described in a press release, to its line of products for...

Validity of Thermometry Questioned

A study published in the current issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise questions the...

Tube Misconnection Errors Noted in WSJ

A recent report in the Wall Street Journal discussed a safety consideration in healthcare settings that may be...

Isolation Guidelines Revised

The 1996 Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals was revised and expanded with the recent publication of the...

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