OneDose’s new eMACC app digitizes medication cross-checks for EMS, aiming to reduce errors and streamline protocol updates ...

Improving resident handoff can help reduce the number of medical errors and preventable adverse events, according to a study in New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers implemented a handoff ...

On July 22, the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses — representing more than 18,000 nurses — announced recommendations for the reduction of medical errors in response to a report recently issued by ...

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 ...

Moreover, leveraging technology to enhance patient safety represents a promising avenue for reducing preventable medical errors. Electronic health records (EHRs), for instance, can facilitate seamless ...

Medical mistakes are as old as the practice of medicine itself, but it wasn't until 1999 that the United States started paying more attention to them. Over 20 years later, we may be reducing medical ...

Every day, as a doctor in private practice, I listen to stories of patients' medical mishaps. I tend to weed out stories of botched procedures, ignored symptoms, and deep betrayals from medical ...

Healthcare leaders and medical technology companies examined ways to reduce medical errors at a patient safety summit Jan. 13. By the end of the summit, healthcare providers and medtech companies had ...

Forty-five percent of patients reported receiving an incorrect healthcare bill. A new survey revealed that almost a third of Americans reported experiencing (or ...

A healthcare IT company is seeking to arm people with rare or complex diseases with efficient access to a second opinion to reduce medical errors. Rajiv Mahale and Jon McEuen are first year MBA ...