Lattice Incorporated

Government Agencies

• Food and Drug Administration - Bar Code Label Requirements for Blood and Blood Components
• Department of Health and Human Services - HIPAA
• Veterans Administration - National Center for Patient Safety

Quality Organizations

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs
• American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) - Statement on BCMA
• College of American Pathologists - Patient Safety Statement
• HIMSS - Advocacy White Paper Bar Coding for Patient Safety
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) - Patient Safety Goals
• The Leapfrog Group - Leapfrog Hospital Survey Report
• National Quality Forum
• Serious Hazards of Transfusion - SHOT

Standards

• Health Industry Bar Code Council - Barcode Standards
• Health Level Seven (HL7) - Interface Standards
• ICCBBA - ISBT128
• IEEE - Standard for Medical Device Communications

Publications

• Lattice - Eliminating Errors with use of Positive Patient ID
• Health Affairs - Variations In The Longitudinal Efficiency Of Academic Medical Centers
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Reporting Requirements Cloud Consensus on Curbing Medical Errors
• Serious Hazards of Transfusion - SHOT Report

Technologies

• Barcode Basics
• RFID - Clinical Trial
• Wireless Network Basics

Blogs

• The Health Care Blog
• HIStalk
• The Healthcare IT Guy