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The Ohio Children's Hospital Association (OCHA) and its six member hospitals studied where pediatric codes occur and found that many occur outside the neonatal and intensive care units. To improve safety, the group focused on reducing preventable codes occurring outside those areas.
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Terry Davis, MD, interim medical director at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH, says the hospital had to clarify some initial misunderstandings about when to call its rapid response team (RRT). At first, the clinicians were confused as to when the RRT should be called, as opposed to calling for a pediatric intensive care consult.
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Injectable medications pose one of the highest risks for medication errors, and the risk often is related to identifying the proper drug and dosage in the syringe before administering it.
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A security breach involving the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and other military hospitals exposed sensitive information on about 1,000 patients, according to a statement released by the Army.
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Research vice presidents for academic health centers agree HIPAA has serious and often detrimental effects on biomedical research.
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A House subcommittee approved and sent on to the full Energy and Commerce Committee H.R. 6357, the "Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008," known as the PRO(TECH)T Act, which is intended to strengthen the quality of health care, reduce medical errors and costs by encouraging adoption of health information technology, and further protect the privacy and security of health information in the electronic age.
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Mandatory use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI), which had been delayed from 2007, took effect May 23. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said there were no early reports of abnormalities or significant problems in implementing the change.
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Some 91% of health care IT decision makers and executives say that HIPAA regulations influence or strongly influence their IT purchasing decisions, according to a survey by electronic access management tool developer Imprivata.
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A man went to the hospital after experiencing severe headaches. A physician's assistant (PA) diagnosed the man as suffering from a spinal headache, and a blood patch was performed to repair the hole where the spinal fluid was thought to be leaking out.
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