A new Patient Identification Wristband Solution from DYMO will make it possible for healthcare professionals to create on-demand wristbands and labels for patients by using the LabelWriter 450 Twin ...

(The “wrong patient” surgeries accounted for 0.1 percent of all problems reported.) All told, cases of patient misidentification cost US health providers more than $8 billion annually ...

Omtool's Healthcare Suite aims to help health care professionals better manage patient records, admissions and clinical documents.

ECRI’s Patient Safety Organization reviewed 7,613 wrong-patient events voluntarily reported by 181 healthcare organizations between January 2013 and July 2015.

To prepare for downtime -- likely inevitable with the insurgence of cyberattacks -- researchers said hospitals must implement and practice downtime procedures, refine basic paper processes and remove ...