Information gleaned from medical devices and retrospective EHR data can improve patient safety, inform clinical decision support, and shape governance strategies
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HIM Professionals Play Key Role in Taking Patient Safety Beyond the Clinical Setting
Two decades ago, with its groundbreaking To Err is Human report, the Institute of Medicine sounded an alarm on patient safety that reverberates today, and reminds us of how much…
ECRI Institute: Patient Matching Is a Leading Patient Safety Concern
By Mary Butler Patient safety experts at the ECRI Institute were concerned enough about patient matching in electronic health records (EHRs) to put it on their annual “Top 10 Patient…
Who Are You? The Quest for a Unique Patient Identifier
Patient identification and matching errors carry consequences that range anywhere from frustration due to relatively minor mistakes to outcomes that can only be described as devastating.