In the March 2001 issue of Health Care News, we reported “as many as 98,000 Americans are dying each year as a result of medical errors. Former President Clinton and Congress jumped on the issue ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I think it would be very enlightening if you would write a follow-up piece on the third leading cause of death in the United States. I am certain you are aware that I am referring to ...

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. That would have been obvious if the ...

Incidence of medication problems and their harm potential following hospital discharge among pediatric patients with epilepsy were not significantly different for individuals who received discharge ...

Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital's cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist. According to St Vincent's ...

Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has made dramatic progress in treating illness, it has made far less headway ...

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...

It was a busy night in the ER and the patient with strep throat was the least of the doctor’s worries–until the patient developed anaphylaxis. In her haste to treat the patient, the doctor gave a ...