Seventeen Philadelphia-area hospitals and imaging centers improved CT radiation dose tracking, control and policies through a one-year Partnership for Patient Care program, according to an ECRI ...

Hospitals have thousands of assets that are constantly changing hands and need to be tracked. Deploying an asset tracking solution can help lower overhead costs by reducing the need to replace missing ...

You can’t manage what you don’t measure: that seems to be the mantra of every hospital executive, as electronic data systems increasingly help hospitals track data on quality measures, patient ...

CMS issued a memo encouraging hospitals to use the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Common Formats to meet adverse event tracking requirements. Hospitals are required to track adverse ...

In recent months, eight facilities have now picked Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) Amelior automatic patient and asset tracking software. The software is used to locate, track and orchestrate ...

The CDC has launched a new electronic system that will enable hospitals to track antibiotic use and compare performance with other hospitals in efforts to curb growing rates of antibiotic drug ...

Nearly all hospitals’ websites collect and transmit user information to third parties, yet most do not have privacy policies that tell the visitors who exactly will be receiving those data, according ...

At issue is a 2022 bulletin that prohibits HIPAA-covered entities from using technology that captures the IP address of people visiting public-facing websites. Healthcare organizations are pushing ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Forty-eight thousand Americans die each year from infections contracted in hospitals. Now, researchers are tracking these deadly bugs from your home to the hospital and back ...

Researchers find that tracking pixels—small pieces of embedded code that can transmit user data to third parties—significantly increase data breach risk on hospital websites.

In Maryland, Covid patients are now filling 42 percent of the state’s adult intensive care unit beds, the highest rate in the nation. In Connecticut, 32 percent of adult ICU beds are filled with Covid ...