Sentences with phrase «being patient safety»

Our Foundation's top priority is patient safety and the human rights of infants.

«The main goal is patient safety,» said Ron Owens, the company's chief security officer before a bank of TV screens displaying security camera footage of the facility.

«I'm not sure what is meant by «death sentence,»» an FDA spokesperson wrote in response, «but our first priority was and is patient safety and we proceeded to conduct the investigation toward that objective.»

This year's theme is «Every Day is Patient Safety Day!»

But, the real issue is patient safety.

Not exact matches

Nicholas Genes, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and a frequent blogger on medical apps, says it's fine if the FDA steps in to ensure that new technology protects patient safety and privacy, but he'll be concerned if the agency oversteps its bounds.

A second challenging (and nonsensical) barrier to stemming this firearm - health crisis, he says, is the widely propagated myth that physicians can't, or shouldn't, talk to their patients about the safety risks of guns — a belief reinforced by a misunderstanding of a provision in the Affordable Care Act.

After one of Theranos» labs was found to pose immediate jeopardy to patient safety, Walgreens has ordered that no blood tests be analyzed there.

The FDA, which is the ultimate arbiter of safety and efficacy — of high quality tests that are proven to work — is the gold standard, and Theranos wants its tests to be the best and safest for its patients.

In a statement to the Journal, a Theranos spokesperson noted that «excellence in quality and patient safety is our top priority and we've taken comprehensive corrective measures to address the issues CMS raised in their observations.»

Our commitment is to patient safety and we take product quality very seriously.

«The health and safety of our patients is a critical priority,» said Marybeth Hays, executive vice president of consumables and health at Walmart U.S.

«An all - electronic format with barcode scanning brings elements to increase patient safety and decrease errors because the patient and the unit of blood are positively identified as well as matched against the provider's transfusion order,» says nursing informaticist Meg Furukawa.

A combination of the electronic bar coding and digital clinical decision support apparatus reduced blood transfusions, which in turn is a win for patient safety.

Immune cells modified by CRISPR - Cas9 were inserted into a lung cancer patient at the West China Hospital in Chengdu in the hopes that they'll be able to fight tumors, and 10 people total will receive injections of CRISPR re-engineered cells in order to assess the method's safety.

Product safety is unusually sensitive in China following scandals over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or sickened by phoney or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods.

This is the backdrop for The Antidote, in which Vertex struggles to navigate the FDA's demands for patient safety, Wall Street's demands for returns, and its own need to take big bold costly risks that are likely to end in failure.

«We do not disclose specific security measures; however, I can say that we are continually evaluating and upgrading our protocols around patient safety and privacy,» Dawn Laguens, executive vice president, said in a statement.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

California and federal officials have cracked down on a major compounding pharmacy they say posed a threat to public safety, but their actions are worsening shortages of medications that doctors rely on to keep their patients out of pain.

We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.

Always pushing the bounds of innovation in areas such as personal health records, eReferral, chronic disease management, integration and medication safety, Jeremy is a champion of patient - centred collaborative care.

Others fear the privacy, security and safety implications as more tasks, from managing the country's roads to reading patients» X-ray results, are automated — and the most dire warnings, from the likes of SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, include the potential arrival of «robots capable of destroying mankind.»

You can be patient about safety of your data, as it is strongly encrypted.

CALGARY — The PCs have been neglecting vital health infrastructure for years, knowingly compromising the safety of patients and heath care...

EDMONTON — Patient health and safety was put at risk today after a flood at the Misericordia forced the closure of the...

10:00 AM Technology in Healthcare Transformation Speaker: Robert Mittendorff, MD, MBA The 2016 CALNOC Conference program examines the ground - breaking work of advancing healthcare quality and patient safety — in the context of where we have been in the past 20 years, where we are today, and where we are going from here... Expect more of -LSB-...]

Moderator: Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS, System Patient Safety Officer and Director, Center for Advancing Patient Safety, Stanford Health Care, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and internationally - recognized expert in Patient Safety, Quality, and Innovation.

The rate of errors may be even higher today, some evidence suggests, despite the millions of dollars spent on much - touted patient - safety efforts.

Improving patient safety and quality is an endeavor that requires both human factors and an organizational approach.

On and on it goes, where it stops, nobody knows: Now UK hospitals are being accused of putting patients» lives at risk by failing to comply with safety orders from central control.

«Her actions clearly show a disregard for her patients» safety and care, which causes her to be a threat to any future patients she might have,» said Reese Hays, the attorney on the board's litigation team who presented the case against Neuhaus.

In a decision that should chill the blood of everyone who believes in religious freedom, the court stated: «That the new rules prohibit all improper reasons for refusal to dispense medication... suggests that the purpose of the new rules was not to eliminate religious objections to delivery of lawful medicines but to eliminate all objections that do not ensure patient health, safety, and access to medication.

Appropriate test methods are able to detect breaches prior to product contamination, thereby significantly improving patient safety.

Palladio Group, together with E Ink, was granted a Silver Award in the 28th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for their patient - forward packaging design for PhutureMed ™ — an excellent example of packaging innovation that benefits the greater good by advancing patient safety.

He was patient though and saw his window to help his kicker Shaun Suisham take on Ravens safety Anthony Levine.

It is likely that their health and safety regulations will not allow you to use a diffuser or vaporizer, as they may disrupt hospital equipment or affect neighboring patients.

Whether or not the problems are huge, at least someone goes to the trouble of identifying and quantifying them (e.g., the new study in the Journal of Patient Safety — a whole freakkin» journal devoted to safety, who Safety — a whole freakkin» journal devoted to safety, who safety, who knew?)

I have been trying to share my and my son's story with patient - safety organizations in the hopes that the hospital, especially the LC who literally wrote in my chart that my breasts had physical markers for low supply but that she wouldn't tell me, would be forced to re-evaluate how they treat moms and newborns.

That does not mean that safety should be sacrificed — rather it means recognizing the patient as a partner in their own care.

The MOR index is a reliable, patient - informed quality and safety indicator that can be applied across jurisdictions to assess the nature of provider - patient relationships, and access to person - centered care.

Jane is programme director in the NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre leading a programme of work on innovations in service quality and health technologies.

He has been a member of the committees on Finance, Nominations, and Patient Safety and Quality Improvement and on the task forces on Safety in Residency Training, and District and Section Donation Policy.

Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight - year period, John Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the United States.

This is about ensuring patient confidence, patient safety and public assurance.

Midwives dodge any and all responsibility because there isn't proper legislation in place to prevent them from lying about anything they feel like (their credentials, their record, the safety of homebirth, the safety of a specific patients pregnancy, if a transfer was recommended or not, etc).

If you are a physician or other professional and are interested in our Free Child Safety Tips booklet to hand out to your patients or customers, please contact us at [email protected]

I think having other eyes on our work is a tremendous boon to patient safety and quality care.

Sometimes there are good reasons, but sometimes the reasons are related to insurance rates, or demands on doctors» time (some hospitals require an OB attending a VBAC to be in house the entire time the VBAC is laboring, and few doctors want to do this) rather than the most medically appropriate choice or patient safety.

In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»