World Health Organization (WHO) news from FierceHealthcare

Using copper surfaces in ICUs can kill 97 percent of bacteria and reduce infections by 40 percent, according to a new study presented at the World Health Organization 1st International Conference on Read more...

The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic is officially over, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee and WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Read more...

Three Mississippi physicians recently traveled to Iran to study its 17,000 "health houses"--rural medical outposts staffed by community health workers--in order to get ideas for improving healthcare Read more...

Never events have always been a huge concern, but with CMS and other payers refusing to cover never-event surgeries, hospitals have even more reason to eliminate them. Now, Rhode Island hospitals are Read more...

A new research report has concluded that after eight hospitals in eight countries implemented surgical safety checklists, they saw improved outcomes on several levels, with the number of Read more...

About a month ago we shared the news that cancer rates in the U.S. were finally dropping. Now the bad news: worldwide, the rates are actually rising. According to a new report from the World Health Read more...

We knew it already but it's good to get the hard numbers; people get different healthcare, and have different life expectancies, due to the differing levels of healthcare they receive in different Read more...

The World Health Organization has introduced a surgical checklist designed to make sure that surgeons and operating teams follow safe pre- and post-surgical processes consistently, as well as meeting Read more...

Rhode Island lawmakers have passed legislation that would create a database for voluntary tracking of medical errors by healthcare providers and insurers. The bill, which still requires the Read more...

The Joint Commission announced its 2008 National Patient Safety Goals yesterday. Some major changes include a new requirement to cut the risks of patient harm associated with the use of anticoagulants, and is applicable to hospitals, critical access hospitals, ambulatory care and office-based surgery centers, home care and long term care facilities.

The Joint Commission also established a new goal and requirement that calls for providers to recognize and respond to unexpected …

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