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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...

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...

On 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.”

Patients with Hepatitis C Can Safely Receive Kidneys from Hepatitis C-Positive Donors, then be Cured of the Virus

Experts 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. 

On August 28, 2018, The Pew Charitable Trusts released a landmark report providing important criteria to support usability and safety throughout the EHR life cycle.