MedStar Health News

Advanced Technology Offers Hope to Qualified Patients Needing Replacement  BALTIMORE— Dr. John Wang, chief of the cardiac catheterization lab, and his team at MedStar Union Memor...

Study of Stroke Prevention Device Which May Give Physicians More Flexibility in Optimal Cardiac Positioning   Washington, D.C., June 12, 2018 – MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute...

On Nov. 29, 2018, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a viewpoint article titled, “Improving Electronic Health Record Usability and Safety Requires Transparency,” by authors from MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, American Medical Association, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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...

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.