Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that’s been considered ...
Aki Al-Zubaidi and Christine Spraker.. Photograph by Caleb Santiago Alvarado. Aki Al-Zubaidi was an interventional pulmonologist in Colorado who’d become fed up with the U.S. health care system.
No department is more central than surgical services to the overall financial health of a hospital, nor more important to its reputation and its potential for growth. Hospitals’ operating suites ...
Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that’s been considered ...
Hospitals invest so much money in EHR implementations that it changes the very nature of their organization. And that means they need to think about operating more like a software company than just a ...
The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least ...
Electronic medical records (EMR) are digital versions of the paper charts in doctors' offices and hospitals that contain notes and information collected by and used for health care providers. The ...