Fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine's landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) convened quality care experts to discuss patient safety priorities for the next 15 years.
OSHA’s new workplace violence guidelines for healthcare call for increased facility security measures and recommend that facilities develop workplace violence prevention programs.
The CMS says more than 400,000 providers accepted pay cuts instead of participate in the federal physician-quality reporting system and electronic prescribing incentive programs.
The Joint Commission clarified that accredited organizations providing diagnostic imaging services have until July 1, 2016 to comply with the accreditor’s requirement for an annual performance evaluation of imaging equipment.
The Joint Commission’s latest roundup of sentinel event statistics found that unintended retention of foreign objects, patient falls, and suicide topped the list of most-reported events in 2014.