Johns Hopkins Checklist Helps Stop Bloodstream Infections
Intensive care units across the state of Michigan reduced the rate of potentially lethal bloodstream infections to near zero.
Mobile Health in Your Palm
Mobile health, or “mhealth,” is helping to improve patient health.
Technology and Counseling Help Improve Drug Compliance
Prescription bottles with integrated microcircuits may help transplant recipients remember to take their medication, a study says.
California Department of Public Health Continues to Fine Hospitals and Nursing Homes for Data Breaches
Since June of this year, CDPH has imposed nearly $1.5 million in fines affecting 12 California health facilities, due to unlawful or unauthorized access, use or disclosure of patient medical information.
WellSpan Health, Cerner and Hospira Make Healthcare History With First Implementation of Infusion Management Technology
One-of-a-kind technology allows clinicians to automatically program infusion pumps with patients’ order information and aggregate real-time infusion and medical device data into the electronic health record (EHR).
Marital Status May Affect Kidney Transplant Decision
Kidney failure patients who are married are more likely to receive a new kidney than those who are widows or widowers or have never married, finds a new study.
Top 10 IT Implications of Healthcare Reform
How Healthcare Reform will impact IT planning and implementation over the next few years.
WikiLeaks Breach Raises Concern About Privacy of Electronic Medical Records
Concerns that the government may not be capable of safeguarding Americans’ most intimate health care secrets when their records go digital.
ASN Welcomes New President
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) welcomed its new president, Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD, FASN, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, as well as its new president-elect, Ronald J. Falk, MD, FASN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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