Tag Archives: Patient

NHS Forth Valley migrates to the latest version of CCube Solutions’ EDRMS, accomplishing its ‘paper lite’ strategy to enhance patient care

August 17, 2022 – CCube Solutions announces today that NHS Forth Valley has successfully completed a mission-critical project to migrate to the latest version of its electronic document and records management system (EDRMS). This is of significant operational and clinical importance to the health board given EDRMS has become the primary database for all patient… Read More »

The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them. ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute… Read More »

Covid-19 Patient Gets Double Lung Transplant, Offering Hope for Others

A young woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the hospital reported on Thursday, the first known lung transplant in the United States for Covid-19. The 10-hour surgery was more difficult and took several hours longer than most lung transplants because… Read More »

‘SARS-like damage’ seen in dead coronavirus patient in China, report says

A lung biopsy found that a man who died in China from the new coronavirus last month had lung damage reminiscent of two prior coronavirus-related outbreaks, SARS and MERS. The patient died on Jan. 27 after falling ill two weeks earlier and becoming increasingly breathless. Doctors bombarded him with various medications in attempts to save… Read More »

Medicare Fraud and Abuse Linked to Patient Deaths and Hospitalizations

PATIENTS TREATED BY PROVIDERS FOUND TO HAVE COMMITTED FRAUD AND ABUSE WERE MORE LIKELY TO DIE, REQUIRE EMERGENCY HOSPITALIZATION Patients treated by health care professionals later excluded from the Medicare program for committing fraud and abuse were between 14 to 17 percent more likely to die than similar patients treated by non-excluded physicians, nurses, and other… Read More »