This content is sponsored by Imprivata. Patient identification errors jeopardize patient safety and result in costly and long-lasting ramifications for providers. The Joint Commission lists improving ...

Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, previously identified “20 Questions Surgery Centers Should Ask to Ensure an Acceptable ...

As healthcare continues its shift toward mass digitalization, more hospitals want to make sure the electronic information of their patients is not compromised. This especially includes an emphasis on ...

Understand the principles of immunohematology in order to learn the principles involved in the performance of compatibility testing and associated applications including: the importance of the ...

The patient identification issue refuses to go away, mainly because nobody has quite figured out how to assure proper patient identity when engaging in health information exchange. At the College of ...

A tiny camera with a little blue light sits along the top edge of the hospital registrar’s computer screen. It’s not much bigger than a thumbnail, but Community Healthcare System hopes it will ...

The accreditation process can be challenging for ASCs, but it remains one of the best ways for facilities to demonstrate their commitment to patient safety. Here, leaders from three leading ...

FT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - With the start of a New Year, many people are talking about New Year resolutions and while few people include resolutions related to prevention of identity theft to their list, ...

WORCESTER – Staff at St. Vincent Hospital did not follow proper patient identification procedures in a July 20, 2016, surgery that resulted in a healthy kidney being removed from a patient, according ...

White House chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra was trying to encourage meaningful use of health IT last week by playing up some success stories with health information exchange in the federal ...