Proposed Public-Private Safety Effort Would Target Poor Device Designs
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Fixing poorly designed devices and other hospital technology problems would be the initial focus of a planned public-private partnership to improve patient safety, according to an article published online April 7 in Health Affairs
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