PDC Healthcare Helps Design Wristband to Aid Infant Immunizations Globally in Underserved Populations
PDC Healthcare, the global leader in ID solutions, is honored to be participating in a global health initiative designed to make a significant impact...
Infusion Errors, Instrument Cleaning Lead ECRI List of Top Tech Hazards
EDITOR'S NOTE: Improving patient safety is a top priority among healthcare facilities. The ECRI Institute recently published its annual list of top 10 health...
Do You Know Who is Roaming Your Halls?
Public arenas everywhere have cracked down on security, so why is healthcare so far behind this prominent trend? As a public institution, hospitals usher...
MA Nurses Support Bill to Protect Healthcare Workers
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hospitals and healthcare facilities are more susceptible to workplace violence than any other industry. In response to this growing epidemic, the Massachusetts...
Joint Commission: 3 Tips on Preventing Workplace Violence
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, and Executive Vice President of The Joint Commission, shares three practical methods for preventing workplace violence...
Patient Safety is the Focus of Every Employee at East Georgia Regional Medical Center
Patient safety is at the forefront of mind for staff members at East Georgia Regional Medical Center. The facility recently switched to a bar coding patient & specimen identification system, from its previous handwritten system. The automated, bar coding system has greatly helped the facility improve its medication dispensing error rate. Read the full story below.
Promoting Patient Safety During Hospital Stay: An Interview with JFK Medical Center’s Robert Bayly,...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Robert Bayly, M.D., explains how the adoption of evidence-based protocols – like electronic medical records (EMRs) – can help avoid many preventable mistakes that...
Good News: Hospital Pharmacists are Taking on a Greater Role in Patient Care
EDITOR’S NOTE: Some positive new trends among hospital pharmacists are on the rise including improved medication-use practices. Read the full story below for the...
How One Hospital Protected Newborn Babies from Medical Errors—Just by Changing Their Wristbands
EDITOR’S NOTE: Patient ID Wristbands in the NICU are designed to positively identify each individual patient, every time. Learn how to prevent thousands of mistakes by...
Patient Safety in Children’s Hospitals: The Journey to Zero Harm
EDITOR’S NOTE: Children’s Hospitals across the country are collaborating together to reduce hospital acquired conditions and changing the hospital culture to one of patient safety. Will other...
