Last month, we looked at what the international community could do in the face of the current Ebola outbreak and addressed many fears and concerns in the healthcare community about what the outbreak meant for us here in the U.S. Since that time, perhaps unsurprisingly, we have had...
A new Johns Hopkins study raises additional questions about the correlation between what patients think they know about their medical condition versus their true understanding
The Joint Commission recently released a new chapter to the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) entitled Patient Safety Systems. The chapter is intended to encourage organizations to build more high-reliability environments, specifically working to promote and foster high-...
