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Patient Safety: Page 2
ORQA lands Kentucky deal
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Risk management software developer ORQA of Peoria, IL, has signed a deal to provide its peer-review software to a radiology group in Kentucky.
February 28, 2008
Tracking radiology performance with a dashboard
By
Kate Madden Yee
Dashboards aren't just for cars anymore. For hospitals and imaging centers, a dashboard -- a computer program that gathers information and creates data reports -- may not bring paradise but it can help departments assess performance issues and determine areas that need improvement.
September 9, 2007
AHRQ sets 2008 target date for error reporting system
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) national voluntary system for reporting medical errors should be operational by the middle of next year.
August 23, 2007
Small steps create significant impact in patient safety
By
Jonathan S. Batchelor
VIENNA - The number one killer in the U.S. is variability in care, contributing to the 98,000 deaths due to medical errors that cost an estimated $50 billion annually, according to Dr. William Brody, president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) this weekend, Brody advocated a bottom-to-top culture change with the adoption of new tools and methods perfected by other industries that can successfully be adapted by healthcare to improve patient safety.
March 10, 2007
MRI of cardiac devices OK, but requires following strict guidelines
By
Shalmali Pal
Two new papers in the
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
offer advice on using MRI in patients with pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators. Electrophysiologic and magnet-related issues that must be considered include magnetic field interactions, MRI-related heating, and functional changes, said the authors from the University of Southern California and other Los Angeles-based institutions.
January 29, 2007
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