patient safety News
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Patient Safety Forum Chengdu, China
Co-organized by the CHINESE NURSING ASSOCIATION in cooperation with SINOPHARM & STERIMED (Sterisheet & ATH Medical) After a first successful event in 2018 gathering more than 80 people from different Chinese provinces and Asian countries last year, a new Patient Safety Forum is being held in Chengdu on 15th of June 2019. More than 100 people are expected for this event that will ...
By ATH Medical
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Baby Pod 20 featured on BBC Business
The new Baby Pod 20’s design and build at Williams Advanced Engineering is briefly profiled in a short video for BBC Business, explaining the cross-over of technologies in between Formula 1 and medicine in using design principles and strong and lightweight materials to ensure patient safety during transport Baby Pod 20 – BBC Business ...
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RightBio Metrics Wins A First Place Patient Safety Innovation Award for the RightSpot
RightBio Metrics was recently honored with a first place Patient Safety Innovation Award. Award recipients were announced on February 23rd in London, England during the 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (https://patientsafetymovement.org) received 55 submissions from 6 countries and awarded RightBio Metrics first place based ...
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ConsortiEX ASHP Midyear Recap, Prioritizing Patient Safety
We want to thank everybody who came to visit our booth at this year’s ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting & Exhibition. We always appreciate the opportunity to show off our products to the people who need them most. To those who stopped by, we look forward to your ongoing input, and to serving you as responsively and responsibly as possible. Being able to field questions in-person, and ...
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Vantage is now a LFPSE Compliant Software Supplier!
Vantage is LFPSE Compliant! We are thrilled to announce that Vantage, has successfully passed NHS England’s rigorous LFPSE (Learning from Patient Safety Events) compliance testing and are officially recognised as an accredited LFPSE supplier. This accreditation is a testament to our commitment to enhancing patient safety in healthcare organisations across the nation. With the ...
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EAASM Report on Patient Safety and Nanomedicines Calls for Centralized Regulatory Procedure
On September 17, 2020, the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) announced the availability of a report entitled Patient Safety and Nanomedicines: The need for a centralised regulatory procedure. According to EAASM, “[n]anomedicines and their follow-on products, also referred to as nanosimilars, are complex molecules and so regulatory oversight must be scientifically fit ...
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The Aesthetic Guide / March-April 2022
Agnes RF is an innovative radiofrequency microneedling device focused on selective electro-coagulation to rejuvenate facial skin and sculpt fat. Pioneered by a group of dermatologists, the Agnes RF microneedling device utilizes an exclusive Square Wave RF energy to focus on gentle yet effective procedures while ensuring patient safety. Agne RF has exclusive single and three-pin needles designed ...
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AventaMed partner with PROSA 2018
AventaMed are delighted to partner with PROSA for the 1st European Conference on Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 29th & 30th 2018. Come say hello to us at booth 7 and learn more about the Solo TTD. For more information or to schedule a meeting, contact ciara.omahony@aventamed.com PSA represents a relatively new field in modern medicine, ...
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Ivenix Medical Director to Deliver the 2020 Ellison C. Pierce, Jr. Memorial Safety Lecture at Anesthesiology 2020
Ivenix, Inc., a medical technology company with the vision of eliminating infusion-related patient harm, today announced its medical director, Matthew B. Weinger, M.D., M.S., will deliver the 2020 Ellison C. Pierce Memorial Safety Lecture at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2020, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), on Saturday, Oct. 3. Dr. Weinger’s presentation on ...
By Ivenix, Inc.
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Ensuring Patients` Safety through CO₂ Monitoring
Leister Corporate, Axetris, Infrared Sources, Medical Axetris EMIRS50 - made for compact NDIR capnography sensors. Its compact size, high emission at 4.26μm and an integrated reflector that improves efficiency makes Axetris' infrared source EMIRS50 make the first choice when it comes to integrating it in capnography analyzers. Capnography is a non-invasive method that measures ...
By Axetris AG
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National Patient Safety Agency Alert Concerning Nebulisers
The National Patient Safety Agency recently issued an alert (NatPSA/2021/003/NHSPS) necessitating organisations to “purchase sufficient powered nebuliser devices for use across the organisation; to remove the need for medical air to drive nebulisers via a flowmeter”. It states that all NHS hospitals are required to be fully compliant by the 16th November 20211. Aerogen, vibrating ...
By Aerogen
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Kurin, Inc. Announces Agreement with AllSpire Health GPO to Impact Contaminated Blood Cultures
Kurin. Inc., the inventor and manufacturer of 510(k)-cleared Kurin® blood culture sets, announced the signing of a recent agreement with AllSpire Health GPO. The agreement is sole source and is for three years. “AllSpire Health GPO and Kurin are committed to patient safety by providing innovative solutions designed to address a common source of contaminated blood cultures and in doing ...
By Kurin, Inc.
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Control Patient Safety with Assure-Trak IV Workflow Management
At ConsortiEX, we work diligently to create solutions designed specifically for the unique needs of health system pharmacies. The result is our Assure-Trak® IV Workflow Management Dynamic Patient Specific Compounding application a dynamically configurable IV Workflow solution to enhance patient safety and optimize process efficiency. Efficient CSP data set implementation – Our ...
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In Recent Guidance, FDA aims for Patient Safety at 503B Facilities
The FDA has issued a guidance to 503B facilities regarding Current Good Manufacturing Practice (gCMB) Healthcare Packaging explains: "A Dec. 10 statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. and Deputy Commissioner Anna Abram focused on the importance of ensuring compounded product quality. FDA noted that it continues to implement its 2018 Compounding Priorities Plan as part of its ...
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BetaGlue has enrolled the first patient treated with BAT-90 in its First-in-Human trials, taking radiotherapy inside solid tumours
The first clinicalfindingshave shown that BAT-90makes it possible to treat onlythe area where the tumour is located, while avoiding the surrounding tissues, so as to combine treatmentefficacy and patient safety BetaGlue Technologieshasenrolledthe first patientin a clinical trialwithBAT-90, the company’s cancer radiotherapy platform. The first clinical findings have shown thatBAT-90 ...
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It All Starts With Patient Safety at Medovate
When Medovate was spun out of the National Health Service (NHS) in 2017, one of the key priorities was to ensure that each medical device the company developed added real value to patient safety. The company mission is to “improve patient care and safety by supplying innovative Medtech solutions inspired by clinicians and developed in partnership with the NHS.” Through a unique ...
By Medovate
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Grifols PharmacyKeeper ranked No. 1 in KLAS rating, extends category leadership
Fourth straight year in which the prestigious healthcare research firm selects PharmacyKeeper Verification as the No. 1 Category Leader for Intravenous (IV) Workflow Management PharmacyKeeper Verification is a strategic part of Grifols’ inclusiv portfolio, offering integrated technology, software and service solutions dedicated to advancing quality and safety in pharmacy operations ...
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Why is incident management so important in healthcare?
What is incident management? Put simply, incident management is the necessary actions and processes implemented by an organisation in order to identify, analyse and respond to problems or incidents, whilst taking relevant actions to prevent their reoccurrence. Within a healthcare organisation incidents are an adverse event such as medication errors, equipment failure, patient injury or ...
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SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands
On 5 May 2009, WHO formally launched its global initiative SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands as part of its First Global Patient Safety Challenge: 'Clean Care is Safer Care' 1 The aim of SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands is to continue to raise worldwide awareness about the importance of hand hygiene to prevent healthcare-associated infections and to sustain action to the point of patient care. More than ...
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Beazley and PeriGen to Collaborate on Patient Safety Programs Addressing Obstetric Safety
PeriGen, the global leader in developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems for obstetrics, has partnered with specialist insurer Beazley to offer its safety-based obstetric program to Beazley’s healthcare clients in the United States. Under the arrangement, Beazley will facilitate distribution of PeriGen’s AI-powered early warning system for labor and delivery, PeriWatch ...
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