Quality & Errors

Workplace security. Life safety compliance. HIPAA privacy and security. They’re all intertwined with a common goal: safety for healthcare...Read More »

CMS and The Joint Commission require physicians and other healthcare practitioners to communicate in a manner the patient can understand....Read More »

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the accelerated uptake of technology, says Patty Hayward, vice president of strategy,...Read More »

The twin surges in influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) across the United States are causing more than capacity issues for hospitals....Read More »

A lack of prescription adherence has cost the U.S. more than $524 billion a year due to morbidity and mortality, according to the ...Read More »

Robert Campbell, PharmD, BCSCP, director of Medication Management and of TJC’s Standards Interpretation Group, gave a...Read More »

The Joint Commission (TJC) has several updated antibiotic stewardship elements of performance (EP) that will take effect on January 1, 2023. These...Read More »

Compared to other hospitalized patients, patients with diabetes have longer lengths of stay and higher readmission rates.Read More »

To a layperson, ultrasound as a tool generally calls pregnancy or abdominal imaging to mind. But as medical practitioners know, ultrasound is much...Read More »

The United States would have averted 266,700 deaths during the Delta and Omicron spikes of the COVID-19 pandemic if the excess all-cause mortality...Read More »