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Cohorts of similar verified trauma centers had differences in risk-adjusted mortality rates with a large amount of variance between low-outlier and high-outlier trauma centers. The aggregate group had a relative risk-mortality of 3.3, while the single-system trauma cohort had a mortality 5.9 times higher for high-outlier facilities. [4]
Healthcare quality and safety require that the right information be available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus on essential data content and documentation standards is a necessary prerequisite for high-quality data in the interconnected healthcare system of the future.
Oracle Health, formerly Cerner Corporation then Oracle Cerner, is a US-based, multinational provider of health information technology (HIT) platforms and services. As of February 2018, it had 27,000 customers globally [3] and 29,000 employees, with over 13,000 at its headquarters in North Kansas City, Missouri.
The Trauma Center Association of America (TCAA) supported the bill, calling it "vital legislation." [5] According to the TCAA, the bill would "reauthorize two important grant mechanisms, the Trauma Care Systems Planning Grants and the Regionalization of Emergency Care Systems. The first supports state and rural development of trauma systems and ...
A 2008 Sentinel Event Alert from the U.S. Joint Commission, the organization that accredits American hospitals to provide healthcare services, states, 'As health information technology (HIT) and 'converging technologies'—the interrelationship between medical devices and HIT—are increasingly adopted by health care organizations, users must ...
McLEAN, Va., Sept. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thought Leadership & Innovation Foundation (TLI), a not-for-profit organization that works at the nexus of science, technology and public health, today announces the transfer of ownership of the Limb Loss and Preservation Registry (LLPR ®) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to TLI.
Prince Harry served in the British Army for 10 years and has devoted much of his life since to the work of veterans and active military personnel, including founding his Invictus Games in 2014, a ...
A health care provider can diagnose walking pneumonia by conducting a physical exam, listening to the patient’s lungs, running blood tests and/or performing a chest X-ray, Cleveland Clinic stated.