Association member UVA Health System is one of seven finalists in the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge, which encourages applicants to use artificial intelligence to predict and prevent unplanned admissions and adverse events.
view more »FDA Announces Sterile Drug Recall
Aug. 28, 2017 ||The unexpired products by Bella Pharmaceuticals were distributed to health care facilities across the country from April 17 to Aug. 10; if not sterile, they could cause potentially life-threatening infections.
view more »CMS Names 16 Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks
Nov. 2, 2016 ||CMS has awarded $347 million to the 16 organizations — including Premier Inc. — to support the next phase of a patient safety initiative.
view more »CDC Research Finds Antibiotic Treatment Increases Sepsis Risk
Nov. 1, 2016 ||The study found that treatment with high-risk antibiotics made sepsis 80 percent more likely compared with patients who were not treated with antibiotics.
view more »HAC Reductions Continue to Save Lives, Dollars in 2014
Dec. 8, 2015 ||Like earlier report, new AHRQ data show that hospitals continued to reduce HAC rates by 17 percent in 2014.
view more »Providers Can Impact Adverse Drug Events for Diabetes Patients
Nov. 6, 2015 ||Course will teach providers to use health literacy with diabetes patients, as well as glycemic target goals and patient-centered communication strategies.
view more »Online Tool Promotes Safer Opioid Use to Manage Pain
May 18, 2015 ||Interactive tool uses health literacy principles and multimodal, team-based approach to prevent opioid-related adverse drug events
view more »Truman Medical Centers improved medication safety by changing their stocking practices, implementing evidence-based order sets, and using a patient-centered education strategy.
view more »Patient Safety: Huddles, Checklists Reduce Harm Rates
Jan. 30, 2014 ||Recent studies, which appeared in the January 2014 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, highlight how several hospitals successfully reduced patient harm in different areas of their organization.
view more »Reducing ADEs Through Trigger Tools
Aug. 6, 2013 ||Participants learned how to use a simple method to accurately identify ADEs
view more »Moving the needle: Comparing HAC Results
June 6, 2013 ||Harbor-UCLA and Rancho Los Amigos shared improvement stories
view more »Share Your Story: ADE and VTE Lessons Learned
March 5, 2013 ||Hear how EHEN improvement teams addressed key drivers of ADE and VTE
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