The Hospital Leaders Toolbox provides leaders – from the boardroom to the front line – with concepts, tools, and resources to win the war on healthcare harm.
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HHS: 1 In 7 Experiences Adverse Event During Hospital Stay
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, released an important report related to patient safety on November 16, 2010, entitled Adverse Events in Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries – featured in an article on USAToday.com. To download the report, click here.
Leaders Toolbox
Technology Adoption: Concepts, Tools, and Available Resources
Click on the Safe Practice title or the expand button below to list the Concepts, Tools, and Resources available for you..
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) refers to any system in which clinicians directly enter medication orders (and, increasingly, tests and procedures) into a computer system, which then transmits the order directly to the pharmacy. These systems have become increasingly common in the inpatient setting as a s...
To provide our members with timely information and guidance on topics related to safety and quality in the medication-use process, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Center on Patient Safety developed this list of suggestions and questions to consider before purchasing a computerized prescriber-orde...
The Leapfrog Group is a consortium of Fortune 500 companies and other large private and public health care purchasers founded by The Business Roundtable. They have identified three initial patient safety standards, one of which relates to the use of Computerized Physician Order Entry. The Leapfrog Group plans to r...
The CPOE Evaluation Tool provides a hospital with a set of patient scenarios, along with a corresponding set of inpatient medication orders, that users enter into their hospital's CPOE and related clinical systems. Those conducting the test record the warnings or other responses, if any, from their hospital's CPOE...
Medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, costly, and clinically important problems. Two inpatient studies, one in adults and one in pediatrics, have found that about half of medication errors occur at the stage of drug ordering, although direct observation studies have indicated that man...
Clinical health information technologies (HIT) are widely viewed as essential tools for improving the quality and efficiency of health care delivery. Medicaid agencies make substantial investments in information technology (IT), have much to gain through the widespread use of clinical HIT, and can have significant...
Care coordination helps ensure a patient’s needs and preferences for care are understood, and that those needs and preferences are shared between providers, patients, and families as a patient moves from one healthcare setting to another. Care among many different providers must be well-coordinated to avoid waste,...
Medical innovations often bear the burden of
a mixed reputation: on the one hand, they can
be costly to acquire and implement; on the
other hand they may save lives and save money
over the long run. Assessing this double-edged
duality—cost versus effectiveness—is critical to
determining a medical technology’...
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