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Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 1, Winter 2011/2012
| Patient Safety Videos:
Center members are featured in the soon to be released Discovery Channel documentary
Out of the Danger Zone: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.
To view the trailor click the following link. Out of the Danger Zone™.
Out of the Danger Zone™ is a trademark of HCC Corporation.
Find out how David Bates amuses himself when not seeing patients, conducting research and running a hospital.
In a video by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Public Affairs office Dr. Bates reveals his other passions.
On Birding, Climbing and Extreme Skiing
David Bates, M.D. is prominently featured in an important new episode of the Public Television Series Healthy Body, Healthy Mind on the link between health information technology (HIT) or electronic health records (EHRs) and the efficiency, and quality of healthcare that patients receive. Whether it's ensuring prescriptions are written and dispensed correctly, monitoring patients from a distance, or diagnosing patients in rural areas of the country, there are many ways to affect a patient's safety. This episode highlights some important work of HIT pioneers and show how tools such as EHRs can help make healthcare both safer and more efficient. For more information or to view this episode online click on the following link and scroll down to View Episode Clip: Electronic Health Records & Patient Safety.
David Bates, M.D., Lucian Leape, M.D. and other center key personnel discuss medication patient safety on the Public Television Series syndicated show Healthy Body, Healthy Mind. Patient safety initiatives featured in this program include Brigham and Women Hospital's use of the new Web-based Incident Reporting System, CPOE, Barcode/eMAR System and Smart Pump Infusion Technology. This program also highlights the many multidisciplinary efforts involved in carrying out these safety measures. For more information or to view the episode online click on the following link and scroll down to View Episode Clip: Patient Safety.
Physicians Advised to Adopt Conservative Prescribing Habits Gordon Schiff, MD is quoted in this American Medical News article re: his publication Principles of Conservative Prescribing.
Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Your Organization David Bates, MD, MSc is a participant in this webinar. Recording and supporting materials can be found on the NPSF website by clicking on the title above.
What the Doctor Missed, Using Malpractice Claims to Help Physicians Avoid Diagnostic Mistakes, Delays Gordon Schiff, MD is quoted in this Wall Street Journal article.
Respecting and Reflecting on Diagnostic Errors Gordon Schiff's blog commentary on Health Affairs.
On a Mission to Improve CPOE Safety: A Conversation with Dr. Gordon Schiff from John Novack, Clinical Café. Quantros, which manages the MEDMARX medication adverse event database, will partner with the Center on a project to research errors reported as being associated with computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE).
Press on the Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Link to The Boston Channel news video.
Link to The Boston Globe's White Coat Notes blog Bar codes reduced medication errors in hospital study.
Dr. Bates is quoted in a New York Times article Using High-Tech to Lower Costs by Susan Okie.
Dr. Schiff has recently been selected to receive an NPSF award to study CPOE-related errors.
Listen to podcast: One-on-one w/CPOE Investigator G. Schiff
Listen to Dr. Bates on American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report about the article he
co-authored entitled Mixed results in the safety performance of computerized physician order entry published in Health Affairs. Podcast.
Members of the Center are collaborating with Canadian researchers at McGill University and at the University of Ottawa to improve patient care using information technology.
Read about this important work in The CUR-IT Project Newsletter.
Listen to podcast New Ways to Reduce Diagnosis Errors featuring Gordy Schiff, MD and moderated by Madge Kaplan.
Heidi B. King, MS, FACHE honored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) and awarded their 2009 Chairman's Medal. Press Release.
Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD's and Carol Keohane, RN's Perspective on The Role of Bar Coding and Smart Pumps in Safety can be read on AHRQ WebM&M.
Eric G. Poon, MD is interviewed on AHRQ WebM&M Perspectives on Safety section addressing Bar Coding for Medication Safety. Read In Conversation with...Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH .
Listen to Heidi King, MS, CHE, Deputy Director for the DoD Patient Safety Program, explain how the whole world is following the Military Health System's (MHS) lead in improving patient safety through a program called TeamSTEPPS - Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance, Performance and Patient Safety.on the Pentagon Radio Network Episode #7: The MHS leads the way in Patient Safety.
Gordon D. Schiff, MD's essay on diagnostic error is quoted in WebMD's story entitled
Overconfident Docs Need Dose Of Reality, Misdiagnoses Occur Up To 15% Of The Time, Physician Overconfidence May Be Partly To Blame.
David W. Bates, MD is interviewed by Dr. Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M on AHRQ WebM&M's Perspectives on Safety - Computerization and Information Technology. Read In Conversation with...David W. Bates, MD, MSc.
Dr. David W. Bates was presented the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research by The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) at the SGIM Annual Scientific Meeting held April 9-12, 2008. The award is presented in recognition of a senior SGIM member 'whose innovative research has changed the way we care for patients, the way we conduct research, or the way we educate our students.'
David W. Bates, MD featured on The Boston Channel's website Patients Risk Drug Errors report.
View the video clip.
