After her father experienced numerous hospital missteps, Elizabeth Bailey developed "The Patient's Checklist," a book of 10 checklists that address many of the essentials for a hospital stay.Full story
A family of giant robots is now counting and processing medications for patients at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. These robots that prepare and track medications at the new automated hospital pharmacy — believed by UCSF to be the nation's most comprehensive — sh Full story
Medicare's new chief called for more steps to improve patient safety Tuesday, in the wake of a government report that said one in seven hospitalized Medicare patients is harmed during their stay. Full story
