PHR NewsVisit our Health Information Manager page to find out more about how MedMemory can help you store, organize, and develop your Personal Health Record 2001, Institute of medicine (IOM) report:
98,000 people die each year because of medical errors, and that when a patient is treated by several practitioners, they often do not have complete information about the medicines prescribed or about the medical histories. Medical-Memory will decrease the incidence of incomplete info.
CNN.com Health April 2000
The Journal of the American Medical Association... reports that as many as 98,000 people die each year from medical errors in American hospitals.
4/4/08 HealthCare IT News:
Physicians see digital records as key to healthcare reform. 46 percent of physicians believe that automating patient records is key to streamlining healthcare and driving reform. The 26-question survey, titled "Jackson & Coker's 2008 Healthcare Professionals' Opinions on Presidential Health Plans," was e-mailed during March to thousands of physicians and health professionals across the country. Medical errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of Medicare patients, report suggests.
HealthDay, 4/2008
Preidt reported, "From 2004 through 2006, patient safety errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of U.S. Medicare patients," according to findings from the fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. The investigators analyzed "41 million Medicare patient records" for the study, which found that "[o]f the 270,491 deaths that occurred among patients who experienced one or more patient safety incidents, 238,337 were potentially preventable."
Furthermore, "1.12 million patient-safety incidents occurred in 41 million hospitalizations among Medicare patients, costing the country's largest payer $8.8 billion between 2004 and 2006," Modern Healthcare (4/8, DerGurahian) added.
American Hospital Association. Hospital Statistics. 2004 edition. Chicago, IL: Health Forum, LLC;2004
The American Hospital Association lists the following as some common types of medications errors: incomplete patient information (not knowing about patients' allergies, other medicines they are taking, previous diagnoses, and lab results, for example)
CNN.com Health April 2000
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) last November claimed more people die in American hospitals from medical mistakes than die nationwide from better known causes including highway accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.
American College of Emergency Physicians© Children with special health care needs Fact Sheets from ACEP.org
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