The Joint Commission seems to be trying to extend their franchise a bit with this new site, the Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety. Most of the content seems to be repurposed from their main site, though.
What is now an important information source for health care news, technology and policy prepares to suffle off to oblivion.
Recently we found out that the American Medical Association decided to make their AMA News online newspaper a subscription based service. The site is bylined as “The Newspaper for America's Physicians”, but in fact it is now […]
Everyone should know by now that Philips introduced a new WMTS network for their telemetry system. My first post was back in January, when Philips updated their website. I saw their new smaller telemetry units last week at AAMI/NTI and learned that Philips can currently support up to 512 devices on the network. They have plans […]
A study (full text $12) in JAMA pegs patient deaths due to medical errors at 98,000 per year. With a brief nod to significant improvements made in some hospitals, researchers go on to savage everyone but, well, researchers:
The researchers blame the complexity of health care systems, a lack of leadership, the reluctance of doctors to admit errors […]
