Increased compliance with the 2002 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidelines for Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections (O’Grady, Alexander & Dellinger, et al. 2002) resulted in a significant decrease in early stage (less than 4 days) central-line associated bloodstream infections…

I voted for Don Berwick in September and wish I could have done so again in November. A political first-timer, founder and previously CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and administrator…

Mayo Clinic is committed to catalyzing the broad use of social media—by organizations, clinicians, administrators, patients, families, and advocates—to improve healthcare.

Through the voices of 15 patient experience leaders, this report from The Beryl Institute explores the growing role of Chief Experience Officer (CXO), which encompasses a broad portfolio of resources…

Sentrian™, has developed technology that health plans can use to monitor and analyze data from patients’ remote biosensors, which allows the plans to anticipate health problems and intervene with treatment before patients are in acute need of care.

We have been thinking about how root cause analysis (RCA) is conducted and how effective is it when properly performed. Relevant factors include the actual methodology, the skill of the practitioners, and the seriousness of purpose.

It is all about the consumer. With more than 68% of the U.S. economy driven by consumer spending, retailers clearly know how to identify and motivate consumers to take action (YCharts).

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The birth of the patient safety movement can be linked intimately to Lucian Leape’s seminal article Error in Medicine (1994), published six years before the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human (2000).

As 2014 draws to a close, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices honors the many exceptional efforts that have been undertaken in the past year to improve medication safety. Despite the many safety accomplishments in 2014…