Becker's Hospital Review

AHA Comments on ONC’s Health IT Patient Safety Action Plan

The American Hospital Association has sent a letter commenting on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action and ...
Becker's Hospital Review

HHS Unveils Final HIT Patient Safety Plan

The final Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan, designed to ensure the safety of HIT for patients, has been released by HHS. • Facilitate reporting of HIT-related incidents. • ...
Becker's ASC

HHS Issues Final Health IT Patient Safety Plan

HHS announced the publication of the final Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan to ensure health IT systems do not jeopardize patient safety. The final plan addresses recommendations ...
WFAA8

Parkland Hospital details patient safety plan

DALLAS There is new information on Parkland Memorial Hospital's action plan to ensure patient safety. The plan was released on Friday in response to a 600-page government report that found the Dallas ...
Becker's ASC

Wake Forest Hospital Regains Medicare, Medicaid Status After Corrective Patient Safety Plan

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has regained their Medicare/Medicaid status after CMS approved its corrective action plan following a patient safety incident involving a two ...
The Daily Sentinel

Hospital board OKs patient safety plan

he Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital board of directors approved an organization-wide performance improvement and patient safety plan and a physician income guarantee at their regular meeting Tuesday. The ...
WUNC

Patient deaths at Mission: Report details failures and CMS accepts hospital's plan for correction

A report by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare reveals the details of multiple patient safety issues including delayed treatment, failures to provide timely care and other errors that caused the ...
Computer Weekly

Digital Clinical Safety Strategy adds to NHS patient safety plan

The UK government has published a Digital Clinical Safety Strategy with the goal of ensuring digital technologies in health and care are safe, while using those tools to improve patient safety. The ...
Statesman Journal

This is Oregon State Hospital's 30-day plan after another patient death

Following a patient death in March, Oregon State Hospital released a 30-day stabilization plan to address safety concerns. The plan focuses on improving staff responses to critical incidents, ...
OPB

Oregon State Hospital releases plan to prevent future patient deaths

Oregon’s psychiatric hospital released a short-term “stabilization plan” to improve safety and medical care after a patient died at the Salem facility last month. The three-page document calls for ...