Patient Safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to...
Quality Improvement Performance Indicators: Prioritizing Your Data
In a recent blog post, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality shed some light on an area of concern for many hospitals: the prioritization...
Is Your Quality-Safety System Really a Do-it-Yourself Project? Should it be?
We frequently describe ActionCue Clinical Intelligence as redefining and facilitating the management process for quality-safety improvement....
Re-Thinking: Four Ways to Advance Healthcare Quality and Safety
For decades, I practiced and taught others a model of developing new software products in which the creator begins with at least two innovation...
Prista Adds Healthcare Leader Keith Thurgood to Board of Directors
AUSTIN, Texas, November 14, 2017 – Prista Corporation announces the addition of Keith Thurgood, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors, further...
7 Steps to Increasing ROI with Performance Improvement
For a long time, Quality and Safety Event reporting have been recognized as important but often downplayed tasks when it came to getting the...
Eliminating Hospital Acquired Infections
Hand-hygiene helps. But, studies show hospital workers wash their hands less frequently by end of workday A few weeks back we talked about how...
Top 14 Healthcare Stories of 2014
1) Healthcare.gov Gets Clean Bill Of Health… Kind Of. Few health stories in 2013 captured as much news coverage and attention than the launch of the...
Alarm Fatigue — Do You Have It?
I know you can relate to this situation. You're walking through a parking lot when suddenly a car alarm starts going off and doesn't stop, and (I'm...




