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ED managers could be impacted by one newly announced National Patient Safety Goal and an extension of an existing goal, says Richard Croteau, MD, executive director for patient safety initiatives at the International Center for Patient Safety at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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ED managers who read these headlines in the three Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on emergency care probably will feel as though they could have written them themselves.
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report is all about the future. However, when it comes to information technology and ED managers, "the future really means catching up with the past," says one expert.
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As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) addressed the issue of patient flow, "system" was once again the magic word.
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A new study from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations finds that community-based preparation for and response to disasters will require more effective communication and planning among hospitals, public health agencies, and community first responders such as fire, police, and emergency medical services, than currently exists.
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In their zeal to protect research participants from undue risk, are IRBs actually making them more vulnerable, by causing frustrated researchers to circumvent the IRB system?
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As IRBs work to ensure that women are fairly represented in clinical research, results from a new survey provide a disquieting message: More older women are uninterested in research and don't believe in participating.
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IRBs and research organizations continue to iron out privacy policies and details 10 years after a law was passed to require health care organizations to adhere to federal privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
