Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
Nat'l Center for IPE & Collaborative Practice
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced
the center in early June. RWJF, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and The John A. Hartford Foundation
have collectively committed up to $8.6 million over five years for the
new center, whose mission is to accelerate teamwork and collaboration
among nurses, doctors and other health professionals to improve patient
care. Learn more.
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.