New Healthcare Notification Network

“Moving patient safety online and out of the U.S. Mail” says Nancy Dickey, M.D., chair of the iHealth Alliance and past president of the American Medical Association. Check the new Health Care Notification Network
Should we also use this for all the safety related statistics, like Sentinel Event Statistics? Or connect the data with ASA [...]

Airplane disaster every other day?

Lots of people are talking about Americans die each year as a result of medical errors as high as 98,000 (1999 data) from To Err is Human. More people die in a given year as a result of medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297), or AIDS (16,516).
Look this number in [...]

Mr. Bean – CPR

How to learn CPR? How could simulation play a role in medical education ?
Light bulb is not just electronic candle. Refrigerator is not just ice cellar with electricity. iPhone is not just phone+ MP3.
As medical simulation is not just moving medical eduction from ICU to Simulation center.

Even Dummies Wear Seatbelts

What patients talk about their own experience of the disase?

Check out the new website. patientslikeme . Also the WHOISSICK. This will give you some ideas how patient report their own diseases.  What this impact on physician’s practices is not known yet?
When you talked about patient safety and quality, beyond the team approach from care providers (MD, RN, RT, etc. ), how to let patient [...]

Clinical Evidence for treatment decision

BMJ Clinical Evidence is one of the world’s most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care. From the site, patient leaflets can also give your patients the same high-quality information in an easy-to-use format written in clear, plain English for better patient understanding.

When Good Doctors Make Mistakes

Two interesting articles from New Yorker “When Doctors Make Mistakes” and “Good Doctors Go Bed“

SICU Critical Care Safety Study

The Cost of Long LIfe

clipped from ucatlas.ucsc.edu

 

Checklist in Healthcare

Does checklist help health care providers or not during their practices? Please see three parts blogs from Charles D. Baker (President and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.).
Also read (January 15, 2008) – OHRP Statement Regarding The New York Times Op-Ed Entitled “A Lifesaving Checklist”
The checklist also make sense to business.