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(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Rockville, MD) -- Improvements in patient safety continue to lag, according to the “2009 National Healthcare Quality Report” and the “2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report,” issued April 13 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’…
(Henry Ford Health System: Detroit) -- Looking to shake up your industry, transform your medical center, and recharge your organization?
A two-day educational symposium, “Going Radical: Creating the Hospital of the Future,” to be held May 25–27, may hold the key to revitalization.
Henry Ford…
(PerkinElmer Inc.: Waltham, MA) -- PerkinElmer Inc., a global provider focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, recently announced that the company’s inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) technology can help ensure that traditional Chinese herbal medicines…
(NCQA: Washington) -- Karen Davis, president of The Commonwealth Fund; Vermont Gov. James H. Douglas; international patient safety leader, Dr. Peter Pronovost; Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell; and three Louisiana organizations that improved primary care systems in New Orleans following Hurricane…
(DAILY RFID: Guangzhou, China) -- DAILY RFID Co. Ltd. has launched the HF RFID Solution Kit for hospital management, which includes the RFID tags and readers, for instant deployment. The RFID solution kit improves patient safety and hospital efficiency by automated data capture.
The RFID…
(NQF: Washington) -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) is advancing its efforts to support an effective infrastructure for quality improvement through the use of electronic platforms.
NQF participated in this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 10…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A new survey from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) asking medical device manufacturers about industry trends and challenges shows a majority (64.7%) identify health care legislation as having a negative effect on the industry in the year ahead. Increased FDA oversight and…
(Wiley Blackwell: Woodland Hills, CA) -- Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are payment models that reward workers for meeting certain performance measures for quality and efficiency. In the health care setting, P4P programs use a variety of methods to reward physicians financially for achieving…
(Leica Microsystems: Heerbrugg, Switzerland) -- Digital technologies have revolutionized everyone’s work and everyday lives. In particular, industrial quality control—which places the most stringent requirements on macroscopic and microscopic imaging and image processing—benefits from innovative,…
(Jesse Garant & Associates: Windsor, ON, Canada) -- Using computer tomography (CT) technology similar to what has been used in the medical industry for years, Ontario-based Jesse Garant & Associates has adopted and expanded this technology for automotive, mining applications, and medical…
(Cognition Corp.: Bedford, MA) -- Cognition Corp., a worldwide leader in Web 2.0 product development software, has released Cognition Cockpit 5.6, providing medical device companies a system that captures the breadth of their product development data in a single, unified model. Information from…
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- A recent survey of top life sciences organizations found that compliance issues and increased industry consolidation (via mergers and acquisitions) are the top challenges faced by companies in today’s market. The survey, conducted by Sparta Systems, the market…
(URAC: Washington) -- As part of its commitment to a comprehensive review of its standards, URAC, the nation’s leading health care accreditation and education organization, recently called for public comment on revisions to its suite of Pharmacy Quality Management Accreditation programs. URAC…
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)—A nine cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan (UM) is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually.
A low-power, sensor system…
(NIST: Washington) -- President Barack Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget submitted today to Congress for the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes a funding level of $918.9 million, a 7.3-percent increase over the FY 2010 appropriations for…
Now that the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed their own versions of sweeping health care reform legislation, the health care industry has its eyes and ears on lawmakers as they negotiate the details of a final, compromise measure.
At this time, it’s hard to predict what…
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI, a notified body providing regulatory and quality management reviews for medical devices, kicks off its “Passport to Europe” program. As part of the program, BSI will be conducting a series of complimentary educational webinars for emerging, new, and small medical device…
(American College of Surgeons: Chicago) -- New research published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that while popular hospital rating systems can help identify high-quality hospitals for cardiovascular operations, patients can achieve similar…
(BGU: Beer-Sheva, Israel) -- A new study by a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) reveals that physicians’ moods affect the number of prescriptions, referrals, and lab tests ordered, as well as the amount of time they spend talking with their patients.
The findings of the…
(FDA: Washington) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a contract to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. to develop a pilot of the FDA’s Sentinel System, which will use automated health care data to evaluate medical product safety.
Reports filed by hospitals, health care…
(IQS: North Olmsted, OH) -- IQS announces the availability of IQS Problem Solver module that enables organizations to standardize problem solving processes with easy-to-use questioned-based reasoning software. Failure to standardize problem solving, capture reasoning, and effectively use your…
(Progressive Business Audio Conferences: Malvern, PA)-- How do today’s top managers maximize job productivity and employee satisfaction? Learn how by attending the audio conference: “Becoming the Manager Everyone Wants to Work For,” on Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 1 p.m.– 2 p.m. EST.
There are…
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Philadelphia) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. , the world leader in serving science, will unveil a new laboratory information management system (LIMS) solution at booth No. 2757 at PITTCON 2010 , being held from Feb. 28 through March 5 at the Orange County Convention…
(Hexagon Metrology: London) -- Following on its recent acquisition of Mahr Multisensor and further expanding its already large footprint in the international metrology market, Hexagon has recently acquired all outstanding assets and intellectual property of Mycrona GmbH, a manufacturer of state-of…
(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), in collaboration with Pfizer, the world’s largest biopharmaceutical company, has released a new publication providing practical examples of how health information technology (HIT) can be used to improve health care quality…