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May 14, 2025
Clinton, MD – Interventional cardiologist, Sonia Samtani, MD, and an all-female team of specialists, performed the region’s first drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty in April at MedStar ...
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November 05, 2018
Procedure in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair is First for the Hospital BALTIMORE—A team at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute in September successfu...
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November 05, 2018
Makes Procedure More Comfortable, Even Easier to Recover From BALTIMORE—(November 5, 2018)—MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, part of the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, has become the first ho...
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November 05, 2018On Nov. 5, 2018, the health policy journal Health Affairs published an article by MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and its collaborators titled, “Identifying Electronic Health Record Usability and Safety Challenges in Pediatric Settings.”
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September 18, 2018Patients with Hepatitis C Can Safely Receive Kidneys from Hepatitis C-Positive Donors, then be Cured of the Virus
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September 11, 2018Experts with MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have leveraged their past research into the safety and usability of electronic health records (EHRs) to join with The Pew Charitable Trusts in offering recommendations to the federal government for making the health IT systems safer for children, whose unique needs make them particularly vulnerable to documented EHR usability and patient safety issues.
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September 05, 2018On August 28, 2018, The Pew Charitable Trusts released a landmark report providing important criteria to support usability and safety throughout the EHR life cycle.