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Two hospitals in Boston are taking the lead in patient safety by pledging to eliminate all preventable patient harm within four years, a goal that some patient safety experts applaud, but which others say is not a realistic goal.
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News: A woman admitted to the hospital put her hand on a metal railing by her bed in her hospital room. The part of the metal rail that the woman grabbed had a towel draped over it, and a used hypodermic needle was in the towel.
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News: A man was working with chemicals at his job when a chemical cleaning solution splashed into his eye. He presented to a nearby emergency department, where doctors irrigated his eye to remove the chemical.
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A renewed focus on safety issues with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines has upped the ante for risk managers, says the leading authority on this issue.
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A hospital in New York City is being sued by a former patient who says staff forced him to undergo a rectal examination even after he vehemently refused and fought the doctor and nurses, who then sedated him and went ahead with the exam.
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Risk managers who fret so much about compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) should worry at least that much about the potential liability from state laws addressing data breaches, say experts on personal data security.
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Risk managers and patient safety experts often run into resistance from physicians when they advocate electronic prescription systems, known as e-prescribing, even though the patient safety benefits are clear. But now a new survey suggests that physicians may be coming around.
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The Virginia Supreme Court in Richmond has ruled that a physician foundation tied to the University of Virginia Medical School in Richmond and its doctors are not immune from malpractice suits because of the foundation's charitable work.
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Physicians "will never have to come to the health information management [HIM] department again" with the implementation of new electronic health record technology at St. Francis Health Center in Topeka, KA, says Judy Hintzman, the facility's director of HIM.
