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<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=4"> Contents JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 • VOLUME 7 ISS</a>
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<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=6"> </a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=7"> Patient Safety EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD & </a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=8"> By Barry P. Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS HEALTH IT & Q</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=9"> R EFERENCES Gladwell, M. (2000). The tipping po</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=10"> By John Moore HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE NH</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=11"> PHR HealtheVet. Instead, the VA can simply direct</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=12"> problem with HIPAA, but Google is</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=13"> DOING OUR PART PATIENT SAFETY GUIDELINES AND HE</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=14"> By R. Dirk Stanley, MD EMR IMPLEMENTATION Cl</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=15"> Give them governance and administra- tive policy </a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=16"> By Pattie Boast and Cathy Potts, MT (ASCP) PATIE</a>
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<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=18"> prior to initiating use of the new dis- charge in</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=19"> ThNeaNtiointahl QUALITY COLLOQUIUM ON</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=20"> Pursuit of excellence. Through the application a</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=21"> SUPPLEMENT TO PATIENT SAFETY & QUALITY HEALTHCARE</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=22"> FIVE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF AN Effective Strok</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=23"> 25% of Houston’s stroke patients currently receiv</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=24"> EFFECTIVE STROKE SYSTEMS plicated by two ad</a>
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<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=26"> One DVT can cause a lot of DAM</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=27"> </a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=28"> Connectivity to Improve Patient Safety Making Me</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=29"> • Support of remote healthcare delivery • Aut</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=30"> CONNECTIVITY tions in late 2007. It receiv</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=31"> dation, the American Society of Anesthesiologists</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=32"> CONNECTIVITY is underway, including partic</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=33"> </a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=34"> Online Connectivity Linking Providers and Patien</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=35"> By Ste</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=36"> ONLINE CONNECTIVITY By</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=37"> required by and for patients regarding H1N1 was m</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=38"> Clinical Documentation MORE THAN A CUMBERS</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=39"> accrediting organization would forewarn healthcar</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=40"> CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION The re</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=41"> Sunquest delivers Patient Safety We deliv</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=42"> The Laboratory AS A SERVICE LINE AND REVENUE GENE</a>
<a title="Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f15bc6ae?page=43"> new lab tests and procedures has exploded but als</a>
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