Topics: Patient Safety
Clinical Safety Cases: Providing a reliable template to manage safety incidents
Editor’s note: In this blog “clinical safety case” refers to the UK definition: A specific quality repository for maintaining safety…
Leveraging audits to improve the safety of healthcare information technology
Allscripts, along with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is excited to celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week, Mar. 13–19, 2022.…
Validate, don’t perpetuate: Getting the best from EPR efficiency tools
The ability to “copy forward” elements of existing clinical notes, observations, results and diagnoses in EPRs is a wonderful example…
Cybersecurity: Risks with Social Media Oversharing
Editor’s Note: This article was written in collaboration with Allscripts cybersecurity experts Sean Hall (Expert Security Engineer) and Rodney Dunson…
Staying aware 365 days a year: Clinical risk recording, reporting and monitoring
The main driver behind clinical risk recording, reporting and monitoring is best represented by the Peter Drucker quote, “If you…
Staying aware 365 days a year: The importance of clinical risk evaluation
Editor’s note: This is part four of an ongoing 2021 blog series focused on patient safety. Last week, Allscripts published…
Staying aware 365 days a year: Driving safe care with clinical risk identification and analysis processes
Editor’s note: This is part two of a blog series in recognition of Patient Safety Awareness Week. Patient safety is…
Staying aware 365 days a year: Strategies for improving and advancing patient safety now and in the future
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us a lot in the past year. An exciting lesson learned throughout 2020 and even…
What can England learn from the rest of the world as it sets a shared care record target?
Richard Strong, vice president and managing director, EMEA, welcomes a new target for the NHS in England: to have shared…
Global lessons learned in responding to an unprecedented crisis – the next phase
As of Fall 2020, we’d seen 37.5 million COVID cases, and 1 million deaths, all over the globe. In these…
Creating efficiencies and improving patient safety through mobile solutions
The perioperative journey is comprehensive with many patient-provider actions along the entire continuum of care. As the healthcare industry manages
Patient privacy, healthcare and big data: A conversation with U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, MD
This is the fourth blog post in a series in which Leigh Burchell shares the lessons learned from conversations with