The Joint Commission has issued a sentinel event alert, warning that while electronic health records and other health IT have the potential to improve care quality and safety, such technologies can pose inherent risks to patients.
A quality improvement initiative aimed at stopping unnecessary patient blood tests at one California hospital led to a 10% decrease in phlebotomies in just five months, HealthLeaders Media's Cheryl Clark writes in MedPage Today.
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