DoctorQuality Signs Agreement With Children's Hospital of Omaha to Enhance Patient-Safety Reporting Coast to Coast.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2002 DoctorQuality Helps Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. Implement Aggressive Surveillance and Reporting Systems to Reduce Medical Errors in a `Blame Free' Environment Children's Hospital of Omaha and DoctorQuality, Inc.(TM) http://www.doctorquality.com, a consumer-oriented Internet-based healthcare company founded with a mission for patient safety, announced today that they have joined forces to meet the challenge of providing for safer environments for children at the specialty hospital. DoctorQuality will provide Children's Hospital with their web-based Risk Prevention and Management System (RPM) that permits employees to report and track patient safety incidents online at its facilities in a "blame free" reporting environment. Gary A. Perkins, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Children's Hospital, says, "We are eager to embrace DoctorQuality's Risk Prevention and Management System and become a leader in early adoption of Internet tools that can truly have an impact on medical outcomes. We have an aggressive commitment to putting into place a surveillance and reporting system that can keep our environment as safe as possible for our patients." John Gebhart, CEO, DoctorQuality, says, "Following the lead of hospitals and long-term care facilities long-term care facility n. See skilled nursing facility. around the country who successfully implemented DoctorQuality's Web-based Risk Prevention and Management, Children's Hospital has adopted this tool, which permits employees to report and track patient safety incidents online at its facilities in a `blame' free reporting environment." Explains Gebhart, "Authorized employees at these facilities can either anonymously report an error or near error or complete an actual incident report online - and the data is entered into a secure data base that each institution exclusively owns." Recent industry reports underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. the trend for health care systems to adopt various Internet tools to assist their employees. "About 25 percent of employers are using Internet health care sites as information and communication tools for their employees; 13 percent use intranet sites," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Deloitte & Touche's "Employer Survey on Managed Care." DoctorQuality's primary objective is to empower health care providers and consumers with effective tools and information to select and improve the quality and safety of an individual's health care service. In recent months, the Disease Management Association of America and Gomez.com have recognized DoctorQuality for its outstanding work in the health care services field and its proprietary database of quality ratings and recommendations. Two years ago, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, charitable organization devoted exclusively to health care issues. It was established in 1936 by Robert Wood Johnson (1893–1968), board chairman of the Johnson & Johnson medical products company. , the nation's largest philanthropy philanthropy, the spirit of active goodwill toward others as demonstrated in efforts to promote their welfare. The term is often used interchangeably with charity. dedicated to health and health care, awarded DoctorQuality with a contract to work with providers and consumers to ultimately design a health care system in which providers are rewarded for improved health care quality over profit. About Children's Hospital of Omaha Children's is a non-profit autonomous regional pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. specialty healthcare center. Patients are referred to the 100-bed hospital from a five-state region. Eighty-two percent of our patients are from Nebraska and the other eighteen percent come primarily from neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. states. Children's Hospital provides over 22 specialty clinics for a variety of specialized needs including Asthma, Cardiology cardiology Medical specialty dealing with heart diseases and disorders. It began with the 1749 publication by Jean Baptiste de Sénac of contemporary knowledge of the heart. Diagnostic methods improved in the 19th century, and in 1905 the electrocardiograph was invented. , Neonatal neonatal /neo·na·tal/ (ne?o-nat´'l) pertaining to the first four weeks after birth. ne·o·na·tal adj. Of or relating to the first 28 days of an infant's life. Intensive Care Follow-Up, Diabetes, Cancer, Physical Therapy, and Helmeting Clinic. Children's Healthcare Services also includes services beyond the hospital and clinic settings. These include Carolyn Scott Rainbow House, a home-away-from-home for families, Family Support Center, Home Healthcare, the Poison Center, and Children's Corner Children's Corner is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy, completed in 1908 (L 113). It is dedicated to Debussy's daughter Claude-Emma—known as "Chou-Chou"—who was three years old at the time. Childcare Centers. About DoctorQuality, Inc. DoctorQuality, Inc. is a consumer-oriented Internet-based company that helps measure, select, purchase and improve the quality and safety of healthcare. A leading healthcare quality management company, DoctorQuality allows purchasers to utilize quality in their decision making, rewards providers for delivering better value and benefits consumers with improved outcomes in healthcare. For more information visit the company's web site at http://www.doctorquality.com. |
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