New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has launched the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map, a tool designed to help ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international research team has developed a new genomic technique that can track the spread of multiple superbugs in a hospital simultaneously. In a proof-of-concept study, scientists at the ...

A small FDA survey of nine hospitals found that the most popular use cases for RFID (radio frequency identification) technology are infusion pumps, portable monitors, wheelchairs, beds, and ...

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 ...

Hospitals lose up to 20% of mobile assets like wheelchairs, hospital beds, and medical equipment to theft or misplacement—costing an average of $3,000 per item to the tune of millions lost annually.

A report found hundreds of hospital errors going unreported. Nov. 6, 2011 -- Medicare inspectors must do a better job of tracking reports of serious mistakes in care at the nation's hospitals, as well ...

Bluesight has released its solution known as KitCheck Anywhere that consists of retrofitted RFID reading shelves that can be used in ORs or patient rooms. The solution is being piloted by a U.S.