A. Fatemi-Ardekani, M. D. Noseworthy, and C. Boylan Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Brain-Body Institute, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Diagnostic Imaging, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, O...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine reported alarming data on the scope and impact of medical errors in the US and called for national efforts to address this problem. While efforts to improve patient safety have proliferated during the past decade, progress toward improvement has been frustratingly slow. Some of this lack of progress may be attributable to the persistence of a medical eth...

T. W. Okell, P. Schmitt, X. Bi, M. A. Chappell, R. H. Tijssen, K. L. Miller, and P. Jezzard FMRIB Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, MR Application & Workflow Development, Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany, Cardiovascular MR R&D, Siemens Healthcare, Chicago, IL, United States, Institute of Biomedical Engineerin...

1 Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, Boston, Massachusetts. 2 Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute, Sunnyvale, California. 3 President and CEO, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, Washington, DC. 4 Founder and Principal, Aging in Place Technology Watch, Port St. Lucie, Florida. 5 George Dock Collegiate Professor of Medicine, Center for Behavioral and Dec...

As I reviewed Bev Simpson’s remarks for this focus on the Dorothy Wylie Health Leaders Institute, I was struck by how similar the current environment is to that which birthed the Institute in 2000. Sixteen years later, we are still trying to achieve transformative change in the healthcare system and leadership still needs our focused attention (Naylor 2016). To complicate the current picture, h...

It is a truism that, for innovative eHealth systems to have true value and impact, they must first and foremost be usable and accessible by clinicians, consumers, and other stakeholders. In this paper, current trends and future challenges in the usability and accessibility of consumer health informatics will be described. Consumer expectations of their healthcare providers and healthcare record...

Lowell E. Schnipper, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Gary H. Lyman, Duke University and Duke Cancer Institute, Durham; Derek Raghavan, Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC; Douglas W. Blayney, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; J. Russell Hoverman, Texas Oncology, Dallas, TX; a...

1288. Rapid Dissemination of Universal Decolonization in Adult Intensive Care Units (ICUs) Reduces Healthcare-Associated (HA) Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) in over 100 Community Hospitals in a Single Healthcare System Jason Hickok, RN, MBA; Julia Moody, MS; Ken Kleinman, ScD; Taliser Avery, MS; Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Sara Bienvenu, MSN; Jonathan Perlin, MD, Ph...