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Don’t hospitals have both compliance and security covered? Seat belt laws can’t guarantee you won’t get hurt in a car accident, even if you comply. Neither can a driver’s license in good standing with the DMV. Likewise, compliance with HIPAA, Meaningful Use and other federal regulatio

Published on July 14, 2014 by Ethan Hertz At a session on health IT safety at the annual AAMI conference last June, I heard an extremely disturbing claim: Electronic health records (EHRs) are killing our patients. The session leaders told us that clinicians sometimes fail to properly

Regulations/Standards ONC Updates Health IT Certification Guidelines Published on September 10, 2014 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule today that provides more flexibility for health info

Research Shows Little Difference in OEM and Alternative Maintenance Outcomes Published on September 5, 2014 By John Bethune Binseng Wang In a presentation at the North Carolina Biomedical Association on September 4, Binseng Wang of Aramark showed evidence that “in the vast majority of

The Joint Commission (TJC) announced at the June AAMI Annual Meeting that it has been asked by CMS to prohibit the use of re-locatable power tabs (RPTs), also known as power strips, in patient care areas, pending confirmation by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).   Th

V-Series Patient Monitoring System, Manufactured for Mindray DS USA, Inc. Used for monitoring of human physiological parameters. The V-Series Monitor also has the capability of performing IV Drug and Hemodynamic Calculations and interfacing with network devices. Several issues with th

  July 24, 2014 The proportion of U.S. adults without health insurance declined 5.2 percentage points since October 2013, with an estimated 10.3 million adults gaining coverage, according to a new study by researchers at the Department of Health and Human Services. Using survey d

Study Finds Outpatient Diagnostic Errors Affect 1 in 20 Adults Electronic Newsletter, Issue 421 AHRQ’s Electronic Newsletter summarizes Agency research and programmatic activities. April 23, 2014 AHRQ Stats Twenty-nine percent of the 38.6 million U.S. hospital stays in 2011 invo

Lauren Rees AMA Wire 8 things you should know about Medicare’s proposed payment rule 7/18/2014, 2:10 PM If the policies set forth in the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule take effect, physicians will be in for a lot of changes—many of them unfavorable—next year. Here