Quality and Safety
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The agency says St. Jude Medical continued to ship faulty defibrillators despite issues with rapid battery depletion.
CMS initiative aims to boost outcomes, reduce cost and find innovative ways to deliver care to underserved populations.
Tool allows purchasers to estimate the number of avoidable deaths among covered lives, related financial details.
As 1,000 patients a day still die from preventable errors, Leapfrog report shows which facilities are failing to improve.
Leapfrog report says many systems are showing dedication to reducing deadly medical errors.
Hartford HealthCare says the partnership will help it transform care delivery over seven years.
The majority of errors were attributed to the human-computer interface, workflow and communication, and clinical content, Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority says.
Healthgrades said 134,568 patient safety events could have been avoided if all hospitals performed like the winners did.
IBM Watson Health will adopt SNOMED CT for use in Watson Health work, SNOMED International and IBM Watson announced today.