True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

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Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital reveals that computer software that helps inform clinicians' decisions about a patient's care can prevent 95% of medication errors in ...

A study investigating medical errors has many healthcare professionals wondering if technology has the potential to reduce preventable medical errors, according to TNW News. 1. The study found of ...

CMS’s Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization has created its first mobile app, called Management of Anticoagulation in the Peri-Procedural Period. MAPPP was created to tell ...

March 24, 2010 — Electronic clinical documentation may help prevent diagnostic errors, according to a perspective published in the March 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "The United ...

A health worker at a Penda Health Clinic in Nairobi during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Credit - PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP—Getty Images There has been a lot of talk about the potential for AI in health, ...

For example, workers may draw medication from the right vial but mislabel the syringe, or they may correctly label the syringe but draw from the wrong vial. Although barcode labels, color-coding ...

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Findings indicate that such software can dramatically improve patient safety during surgery. A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General ...