Computer viruses are "rampant" on medical devices in hospitals.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Computer viruses are "rampant" on medical devices in hospitals.

October 31, 2012

Talbot D. MIT Technology Review. October 17, 2012.

View more articles from the same authors.

This article highlights risks associated with malicious software on medical equipment and how it can affect patient care.

Free full text

Related report

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Most dangerous time at the hospital? It may be when you leave.

March 30, 2016

Inquiry into reporter's death finds multiple failures in care.

July 5, 2006

AI is wrestling with a replication crisis.

November 25, 2020

Why engineers are working to build better pulse oximeters.

February 21, 2024

Many COVID-19 survivors will be left traumatized by their ICU experience.

May 6, 2020

Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami: Bring Your Best Board.

May 16, 2012

Just Culture and its critical link to patient safety—part 1 and part 2.

July 25, 2012

Scant oversight of drug maker in fatal meningitis outbreak.

October 17, 2012

Preventing unintended retained foreign objects.

October 23, 2013

Drug shortages persist in US, harming care.

November 28, 2012

How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper: A Checklist.

November 7, 2012

IBM's Watson is learning its way to saving lives.

October 24, 2012

Medicare releases patient safety ratings for hospitals.

October 26, 2011

‘Fear of falling’: how hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed.

November 6, 2019

Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities: Training Modules.

August 8, 2012

Death of a boy prompts new medical efforts nationwide.

November 7, 2012

Call to Action: Safeguarding the Integrity of Healthcare Quality and Safety Systems.

October 31, 2012

Minnesota hospitals are testing ways to reduce return trips.

October 24, 2012

Order from Chaos: Accelerating Care Integration.

November 7, 2012

Serious adverse events from accidental ingestion by children of over-the-counter eye drops and nasal sprays.

November 7, 2012

AI can't replace doctors. But it can make them better.

October 31, 2018

Patient-Centered Care: What Does It Take?

November 21, 2007

Sterile compounding tragedy is a symptom of a broken system on many levels.

October 31, 2012

Ebola case raises concern about everyday hospital safety.

October 29, 2014

Getting the diagnosis wrong.

October 21, 2015

The consumer: and now, a warning about labels.

November 9, 2005

The Anatomy of Medical Error: Preventing Harm with People-Based Patient Safety.

October 25, 2006

Paramedics turn to expired drugs due to shortages.

July 25, 2012

How one hospital improved patient safety in 10 minutes a day.

November 14, 2018

Most adverse events at hospitals still go unreported.

August 22, 2012

Why it's so easy for doctors to misdiagnose kids.

December 2, 2015

Save a brain, make a checklist.

April 2, 2014

Unite for Safe Care.

September 17, 2021 - September 17, 2021

Advancing safety with closed-loop communication of test results.

January 15, 2020

World Patient Safety Day.

April 22, 2024

Patient safety tool helps ID hospital errors.

January 16, 2013

5 most commonly misdiagnosed conditions in the ICU.

December 19, 2012

Improving Patient and Worker Safety—Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation.

December 19, 2012

How-to Guide: Prevent Obstetrical Adverse Events.

October 24, 2012

Is the FDA to blame for drug shortages?

August 8, 2012

Patient Safety and Satisfaction: The State of American Hospitals.

June 6, 2012

Organ donor's surgery death sparks questions.

April 18, 2012

Rating hospitals by the stars: the feds' latest plan to measure quality is the most controversial.

June 1, 2016

How to prevent the top 4 medication errors.

October 17, 2018

Health systems and hospitals in pursuit of high reliability.

May 1, 2019

Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities causing mortality and morbidity in pregnant and postpartum patients.

January 25, 2023

When the water breaks.

August 3, 2022

Your diagnosis was wrong. Could doctor bias have been a factor?

December 11, 2019

Former pharmacist indicted for manslaughter after med error.

October 3, 2007

Reducing adverse obstetrical outcomes through safety sciences.

November 27, 2022

For Colorado mom, story of daughter's hospital death is key to others' safety.

March 4, 2015

The biggest mistake doctors make.

November 27, 2013

Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety.

September 30, 2020

Irked by drug-interaction alerts? Customize them, experts advise.

April 26, 2006

Patient Safety Measures: Complications.

January 30, 2005

Dirty surgical tools put patients at risk.

March 7, 2012

10 medical errors that changed the standard of care.

February 15, 2012

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012.

September 26, 2012

UTMC nurse tossed out kidney, ruined it. National experts say error is rare.

September 5, 2012

Far more could be done to stop the deadly bacteria C. diff.

August 29, 2012

How-to Guides: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations.

August 8, 2012

National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Patient Safety Measures: A Consensus Report.

June 27, 2012

Navigating risks in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

October 28, 2015

Healing the hospital hierarchy.

March 27, 2013

Deficiencies after the New Electronic Health Record Go-Live at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA.

March 30, 2022

Hospital design plays important role in patient outcomes.

April 27, 2005

ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations.

April 17, 2024

Using Safety Cases in Industry and Healthcare.

February 13, 2013

2011 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in Emergency Medicine.

September 26, 2012

Mail service and community pharmacies must work in tandem.

November 30, 2005

ISMP 2007 survey on high-alert medications. Differences between nursing and pharmacy perspectives still prevalent.

May 30, 2007

ADC survey shows some improvements, but unnecessary risks still exist.

February 6, 2008

Meeting the Joint Commission's 2013 National Patient Safety Goals.

November 10, 2010

Raising and Acting on Concerns about Patient Safety.

January 12, 2012

Fear of punitive response to hospital errors lingers.

March 7, 2012

AHRQ patient safety project reduces bloodstream infections by 40 percent.

September 19, 2012

Failure and rescue.

July 11, 2012

Protect Patients Against Preventable Harm from Improper Use of Single-dose⁄Single-use Vials.

May 16, 2012

Goals and Priorities for Health Care Organizations to Improve Safety Using Health IT. Revised Report.

June 29, 2016

Is an indication-based prescribing system in our future?

November 30, 2016

Safety enhancements every hospital must consider in wake of another tragic neuromuscular blocker event.

January 23, 2019

With oral chemotherapy, we simply must do better!

July 30, 2014

Heparin errors continue despite prior, high-profile, fatal events.

August 6, 2008

Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care.

September 26, 2012

Improving Transitions of Care: Hand-off Communications.

July 18, 2012

Preventing Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections: a Global Challenge, a Global Perspective.

May 30, 2012

‘They can’t ignore us any more’: five women on long Covid and medical misogyny.

October 26, 2022

Investigating the Prevalence and Causes of Prescribing Errors in General Practice: The PRACtICe Study.

May 16, 2012

Maalox Total Relief and Maalox Liquid Products: Medication Use Errors.

March 3, 2010

More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety.

July 30, 2014

Preventing errors when preparing and administering medications via enteral feeding tubes.

December 7, 2022

Canadian Incident Analysis Framework.

November 30, 2016

Monday Mornings.

April 11, 2012

Hospital Experiences Using Electronic Health Records to Support Medication Reconciliation.

August 13, 2014

Transparency and public reporting are essential for a safe health care system.

April 7, 2010

Infections associated with reprocessed flexible bronchoscopes.

September 30, 2015

Making Medical Devices Safer at Home.

January 9, 2013

Utah Tenth Anniversary (2001–2011) Patient Safety Report: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement.

October 10, 2012

"Sully" Sullenberger takes on patient safety.

September 5, 2012

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy.

May 16, 2012

Related Resources

Interview

In Conversation with... Susan McGrath, PhD and George Blike, MD about Surveillance Monitoring

April 26, 2023

Perspective

Surveillance Monitoring to Improve Patient Safety in Acute Hospital Care Units

April 26, 2023

Journal Article

Study

Reducing hospital harm: establishing a command centre to foster situational awareness.

March 29, 2023

Artificial intelligence, patient safety, and achieving the quintuple aim in anesthesiology.

February 22, 2023

Algorithm that detects sepsis cut deaths by nearly 20 percent.

August 24, 2022

Dashboard design to identify and balance competing risk of multiple hospital-acquired conditions.

July 13, 2022

Anatomy of a cyberattack: part 4: quality assurance and error reduction, billing and compliance, transition to uptime.

April 27, 2022

Internet of things in healthcare for patient safety: an empirical study.

March 16, 2022

It's like sending a message in a bottle: a qualitative study of the consequences of one-way communication technologies in hospitals.

October 13, 2021

Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis.

June 16, 2021

What are the implications for patient safety and experience of a major healthcare IT breakdown? A qualitative study.

May 26, 2021

Perceptual gaps between clinicians and technologists on health information technology-related errors in hospitals: observational study.

March 3, 2021

When machine learning goes off the rails. A guide to managing the risks.

March 3, 2021

FDA Advise-ERR: reported medication errors with Veklury (remdesivir) emergency use authorization.

September 23, 2020

Lessons learned implementing a complex and innovative patient safety learning laboratory project in a large academic medical center

January 15, 2020

Top 10 medical technology hazards of 2020 announced.

October 23, 2019

Capturing essential information to achieve safe interoperability.

August 10, 2016

Is technology the best medicine? Three practice theoretical perspectives on medication administration technologies in nursing.

June 15, 2016

Medication errors involving overrides of healthcare technology.

January 20, 2016

Automated communication tools and computer-based medication reconciliation to decrease hospital discharge medication errors.

April 8, 2015

Clinical safety of England's national programme for IT: a retrospective analysis of all reported safety events 2005 to 2011.

February 11, 2015

Omission of high-alert medications: a hidden danger.

January 7, 2015

The human factor. To improve patients safety, hospitals urged to adjust for how staff use new technology.

September 10, 2014

Can wearable tech prevent healthcare errors?

March 26, 2014

Medication administration errors in hospitals—challenges and recommendations for their measurement.

March 26, 2014

"Second victim" casualties and how physician leaders can help.

March 19, 2014

The next organizational challenge: finding and addressing diagnostic error.

March 5, 2014

Development of a Web-based surgical booking and informed consent system to reduce the potential for error and improve communication.

February 26, 2014

Evaluation of medium-term consequences of implementing commercial computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support prescribing systems in two 'early adopter' hospitals.

February 19, 2014

Computerized physician order entry: promise, perils, and experience.

February 12, 2014

See More About The Topic

Hospitals

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Information Professionals

General Internal Medicine

Hospital Medicine