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Top 10 Health Technology Hazards in 2023 to Watch

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ECRI , the nation’s largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023. In practice, this means verifying that telemetry is being prescribed appropriately (i.e.,

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

This brings up the concept of wearable digital health technologies for monitoring. A critical element in achieving optimal patient safety is the active participation of the patient and their family members in the healthcare process. In fact, people taking prescribed opioids should have naloxone available.