In an effort to ensure more reporting of adverse events, Minister for Health James Reilly is considering a number of proposals that would impose stiff sanctions if providers fail to inform patients ...

AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and we’d love to get your feedback about who you’ve enjoyed in the past, and who you’d li...

True or False: The International Normalized Ratio (INR) is used to measure the patient’s level of coagulation when using Warfarin. ...

The Joint Commission has published its prepublication standards for telemedicine (LD.04.03.09 and MS.13.01.01) to their website here. If this link doesn’t work, you can also copy and paste the U...

AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and we’d love to get your feedback about who you’ve enjoyed in the past, and who you’d ...

The quarterly delinquent medical record rate cannot exceed _____________. ...

In a recent announcement, The Joint Commission has urged hospitals and other accredited organizations to review their sterilization and high-level disinfection (HLD) processes in detail....

The latest AHAP working group call on tracers was a great success! Thank you to all who joined in and participated on the call, and a special thank you to advisory board members Jodi Eisenberg and M...

Many hospitals have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) or are currently doing so, and the federal government provides incentives for using this ­technology in a meaningful way. EMRs are ...

A look at the patient safety literature as well as recent popular media leaves no doubt that what is currently coined "disruptive provider behavior" is detrimental to the delivery of safe ...