Sometimes, there can be a gap between safety efforts and the actual achievement of measurable safety. That may arise because official safety efforts are not addressing real problems, the safety efforts are not effective, or […]
I always learn something from listening to other people’s insights and occasionally have a few of my own to share, so I’m excited we are creating this new venue for starting—or continuing—conversations, sharing, and learning. […]
The controversy generated by the Dec. 2, 2011 “clarification” memo from CMS to the state survey agency directors has made me stop and think about just what kind of a job we, as a professional […]
As Carilion Clinic has continued to move forward on securing and supporting medical devices with our standardized model, we also have identified an issue we should have addressed as part of the process. Medical devices […]
Let’s take a stretch and assume the “how” is solved and we can connect medical devices into the IT ecosystem. Now what? The “why” may seem obvious, but it is not. Access to and from […]
The recent Institute of Medicine report on the safety of health IT hit the nail on the head in saying that, “the current state of safety and health IT is not acceptable” and that “specific […]
