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• Improve Patient Safety With A Quality Wristband Solution

  12/9/2010

  Patient wristband quality and consistency depend heavily on the print technology, printer model and wristband material used. By Intermec, Inc.
• False Alarms Have Real Consequences In Hospitals

  10/23/2017

  As we go through our days, we are surrounded by a variety of alerts: clocks alarm in the morning, microwaves ding at lunch and dinner, smartphone reminders chirp throughout the day, and sounds of text messages are often in between. By Todd Plesko, Vice President of Product Strategy, Vocera Communications, Inc.

• What Does It Take To Earn Top Medicare Advantage Ratings?

  6/4/2019

  While healthcare leaders uniformly agree that transitioning to value is the way healthcare is going to be in the coming days, it is unclear to most how they can make the transition without negatively impacting their cost outcomes. In an industry which had primarily been fee-for-service based, healthcare organizations are facing immense pressure to innovate and adapt or risk their long-term viability.

• Beating COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive To Pro-Active Care

  10/5/2020

  The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94 percent of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6 percent of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However, while immediate prospects for a mass vaccine might not be until 2021, there is some hope.

• End The Chaos. Reduce The Noise. Improve Patient Safety.

  2/18/2020

  Amid complexity and chaos, a trauma nurse misses a vital piece of information and a major mistake is set in motion.

• Did The U.S. Technology Gap Push Medical Errors Into The Third Leading Cause Of Death?

  6/15/2016

  Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a U.S. IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest “Can You Top This” except, increasingly, the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks to needless medical deaths, many of these IT snafus are caused by preventable interoperability communication errors, as has been the case for decades.