Hospitalized patients who died or were transferred to the ICU during their stay experienced a diagnostic error nearly a quarter of the time — and in most cases the error caused harm, according to a new study that's prompting calls to rethink howhealth systems keep patients safe.
Why it matters: Hospitals can be risky places for patients, and the new study sheds light on how commonly human error in medicine harms and even kills patients.
The cellphone of the future may be able to detect air quality and smoke levels near the person carrying it, alerting users about dangerous findings.
Driving the news: A startup called Mobile Physics has developed this technology, and Qualcomm and STMicroelectronics are embedding it in a forthcoming Android phone platform.
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