Throughout the healthcare system, initiatives to promote patient safety, improve outcomes and report consistently on quality metrics are gaining considerable momentum. Many states have required ...

The National Quality Forum is aiming to modernize and standardize serious adverse event reporting via a new patient safety effort. Through the “Focus on HARM” initiative, NQF will update the criteria ...

Harm and the potential for harm from medical care is pervasive and well-documented. Much of the safety literature has historically focused on physical harm, but the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Healthcare Safety Network offers a free, downloadable patient safety monthly reporting plan. The monthly reporting plan was designed to help ...

A hospital’s patient safety initiatives are only as effective as the tools used to track and analyze incidents. Despite significant progress over the past two decades following the 2005 Patient Safety ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

Hospitals’ incident reporting systems are missing about half of Medicare patient harm events and even more infrequently investigating those events or reporting them to the government, according to a ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

Pulsion Technology explains why dental practices are moving away from paper-based checks towards structured digital audits.

The hospital wants clinicians to know quickly when scans show unexpected or emergent results. Massachusetts General Hospital has launched an innovative patient safety initiative to promote the timely ...