Fall Prevention Showcase

Fall Prevention Showcase

What Goes Down—Shouldn’t

Between 2 and 15% of hospital patients in the United States experience falls. Nearly a third result in injuries and sometimes even death. Preventing falls in the acute environment is a constant battle against gravity and human behavior.

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Patient Safety in Africa: A Culture Shift?

Patient Safety in Africa: A Culture Shift?

Patient safety has received increased attention in African countries in the last decade, yet little is known about African patient safety challenges and quality improvement opportunities.

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Telluride Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Roundtable

Telluride Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Roundtable:
Medical Students’ Daily Narrative Reflections

As each new report of medical harm is published, the need to redesign medical education to prepare young physicians capable of approaching patient care in ways that decrease the opportunity for harm reaches a new level of urgency.

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Gray Market, Black Heart

ISMP

Gray Market, Black Heart

Pharmaceutical gray market finds a disturbing niche during the drug shortage crisis.

Widespread accounts of frustration, outrage, and serious compromises to patient care came across loud and clear from purchasing agents and pharmacists at 549 hospitals who participated in ISMP’s July-August survey (2011) on gray market activities associated with drug shortages.

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The Link Between Transparency and Patient Safety

Event Reporting

The Link Between Transparency and Patient Safety

Since early 2010, 13 private, acute care hospitals in Rhode Island have been collaborating in a major initiative to improve patient safety through better reporting of data on adverse and near-miss medical events. The hospitals now use the same medical event reporting technology and have standardized their reporting criteria.

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Provider-Friendly Terminology Speaks the Language of Quality and Safety

Medical Terminology Management

Provider-Friendly Terminology Speaks the Language of Quality and Safety

As a practicing physician, my peers often ask me what I do in the technology arena. When I reply, “standardization or medical terminology management,” I’ve usually lost them. And at its core, the goal of standardization really is not to complicate matters for physicians and other clinicians. Provider-friendly terminology (PFT) is an example of the kind of standardization our industry needs.

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Patient Safety and Health IT

by Susan Carr

The Institute of Medicine’s consensus report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, gives a realistic, sobering view of the safety implications of electronic medial/health records (EHRs)…

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NEXT STEP Program Wins 2011 HOPE Award

Nov. 14, 2011—The winner of the 2011 MITSS HOPE Award is the NEXT STEP Program at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Emergency Department in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The HOPE Award Honors Outstanding People Everywhere who have furthered the MITSS mission of Supporting Healing and Restoring Hope to patients, and families, and clinicians who have been impacted by adverse medical events. RL Solutions’ President and CEO, Sanjay Malaviya, presented the award at the MITSS 10th Annual Dinner and Fundraiser held at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, on Tuesday, November 1st. 

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IOM Issues Report on Patient Safety and Health IT

Nov. 8, 2011—To protect Americans from potential medical errors associated with the use of information technology in patient care, a new report by the Institute of Medicine calls for greater oversight by the public and private sectors.  The report examines a broad range of health information technologies, including electronic health records, secure patient portals, and health information exchanges, but not software for medical devices.

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