Patient Safety

LINDSAY, Ont. – The Ross Memorial Hospital is seeing positive results in use of an Early Warning System that’s designed to detect deterioration of a patient’s condition and helps to avoid serious adverse events. Read More

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, released a new study that examines the problem of drug diversion in U.S. hospitals, an underreported contributor to the opioid epidemic. Read More

COLLINGWOOD, Ont. – Collingwood General and Marine Hospital (CGMH) has opened the first of five self-sanitizing rooms, and will be the first hospital in Canada to use copper-infused panels on the walls in its hallways and patient rooms to prevent bacteria growth. Read More

WINNIPEG – Jennifer Zyla, a breast cancer patient, documented multiple times in 2018 when she found that her chemotherapy pump had passed its inspection date. For its part, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is calling it a “one-off situation.” Read More

TORONTO, CHICAGO, and LONDON – RL Solutions and Datix Limited, leading providers of healthcare quality and patient safety software, have announced the merger of the two companies to form a global leader in patient safety, quality and infection prevention. After a brief transition period through the end of July, Seyed Mortazavi, Datix CEO, will take over chief executive duties of the combined company. Sanjay Malaviya (pictured), RL’s founder and CEO, will become executive chairman of the board. Read More

OLIVER, B.C. – South Okanagan General Hospital has deployed MedHx, DrFirst’s electronic patient medication history service, integrated within the hospital’s Meditech Enterprise Health Record (EHR). Read More

OTTAWA – The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) is investing $3 million in Pharmapod – a medication error reporting platform that is already playing a vital role in improving patient safety and supporting pharmacists across the globe in tracking and reducing medication errors. Read More

TORONTO – Canadians with chronic conditions are experiencing medication errors and undergoing unnecessary repeat procedures according to a national survey commissioned by Orion Health. Read More

MONTREAL – Facing a shortage of hospital personnel willing to respond to Code White violent incidents involving patients and visitors at the McGill University Health Centre, the MUHC launched an internal recruitment campaign. Read More

TORONTO – A new report by Health Quality Ontario focuses on 29 Ontario hospitals who are participating in an international quality improvement program for surgery. Hospitals in Ontario performed just as well or better than their international peers on key metrics before, during and after surgery. Nearly 700 other hospitals around the world participate in this program. Read More