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A paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests an apparent conflict between protecting individual patients privacy and improving the quality, safety, and cost of medical care for all patients.
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Potential pitfalls involving use of quality software may be far more serious than possible loss of quality data, according to a recent study. Researchers found that a particular brand of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) software meant to reduce medication errors actually introduced errors instead at one hospital.
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Misleading data that serve only to confuse administrators. Multiple departments collecting the same data without realizing it. Collecting large amounts of data but never addressing the problems they identify.
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As of Jan. 1, 2006, revisions made to the Joint Commissions information management standard IM.6.20 will require hospitals to collect information on the language and communication needs of patients.
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The contemporary operating environment in health care organizations is challenging. To survive, everyone must be well informed. To lead the organization, the senior executive team needs information on the organizations current state and the direction it is heading.
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Many stories are emerging from the EDs and field hospitals responding to patient needs following Hurricane Katrina, but few have been as moving as the e-mail by Hemant H. Vankawala, MD, an emergency physician with Questcare partners in Dallas, Denton (TX) Regional Medical Center, and the downtown Dallas Baylor University Medical Center, sent to several of his colleagues.
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An accelerated triage process developed by the ED staff at University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center has reduced the frequency of patients who left without being seen by a physician by almost 50% from about 8% to 4%.
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Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hospital in Hollywood, FL, improved patient satisfaction from the 81st percentile in March 2005 to the 99th percentile in June 2005, and it has remained at that level. At newly opened Memorial Hospital in Miramar, FL, satisfaction rates rose from 85% to 99% in one quarter.
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A recent study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine finds that patients with traumatic brain injuries who are transported by medical helicopters have higher chances of survival and better recoveries than ground-transported patients.
