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Celebrating Patient Safety Awareness Week with news and analysis about patient safety and healthcare quality.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
 

Featured Story

Achieving Zero Preventable Deaths: One Hospital's Journey

Clinical excellence, including patient safety, often reflects hospital leadership and its efforts to foster a culture of safety and transparency. During this opening session of today's Patient Safety NOW virtual event, hospital leaders will share key learnings from their unique journey to achieve zero preventable patient deaths.

 

News & Analysis

Inside The Technology Protecting Healthcare From Supply Chain Cybersecurity Attacks
With cybersecurity risks on the rise at hospitals and health systems, third-party access has been identified as a point of vulnerability. While preventing these types of breaches presents special challenges, there are actions organizations can take to mitigate risk.
Acclaimed Clinical Leader Offers 4 Steps to Quality Improvement
Quality improvement is crucial, not only to benefit the patient but also to enhance processes for the staff. "[Quality improvement] has the best outcome for the team and ultimately for the patient, so it's mission critical for an organization," says Kerri Scanlon, executive director of Northwell Health's Glen Cove Hospital .
PSQH Connect

PSQH Innovation Awards Winner: Jefferson Healthcare Revamped Infection Control Processes After COVID-19 Hit

A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in the U.S. in Washington state, which forced healthcare organizations there to spring into action against a virus that health experts knew very little about. One such organization, Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend, successfully managed to transform its processes and has been selected as the winner of the third annual PSQH Innovation Awards.
PSQH: The Podcast

PSQH: The Podcast Episode 24 - The State of Healthcare Interoperability

On episode 24 of PSQH: The Podcast, Micky Tripathi, the new national coordinator for health information technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, talks about the state of healthcare interoperability. As part of Patient Safety Awareness Week, this episode is presented in partnership with Vocera, GOJO—the makers of Purell, and symplr.

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Barriers to Incident Reporting in Healthcare

To understand and improve any system, we must look at its successes and failures. When it’s life and death, healing or inadvertently injuring patients, the stakes could not be higher. Our healthcare providers and staff undertake complex work under pressure of time constraints, and in environments where priorities shift. This article is presented by symplr.
 

Industry Events

Friday, 4/30 - ABQAURP's 43rd Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference

Tuesday, 6/11 - 2021 IHI Patient Safety Congress

Monday, 6/28 - APIC 2021

Monday, 8/9 - HIMSS21 Global Health Conference & Exhibition

 

Patient Safety Awareness Week

 

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Product Spotlight

Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey, Fourth Edition

Life safety expert and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey.

 

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