A new Sentinel Event Alert issued by The Joint Commission today highlights the need for healthcare organizations to ensure the safe use of health information technology.
A study published last week found that close interactions between patients and healthcare workers serve as pathways for the transmission of staphylococcus aureus strains.
The Food and Drug Administration last week released new recommendations to prevent infections from reusable medical devices like the ones that recently led to superbug outbreaks in several hospitals.
The Joint Commission has revised its post-survey processes for rendering decisions of Accreditation with Follow-up Survey and Preliminary Denial of Accreditation.
A new report about Minnesota’s adverse event reporting system found that the state’s hospitals reported an increase in errors last year but the lowest number of deaths since 2011.
