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Unraveling Diagnostic Error: Delving Deeply to Identify Hidden Human Factors
The challenges we face in improving patient safety and decreasing healthcare-related harm and death remain urgent, compelling, and undeniable. Despite our considerable efforts over the past 15 years, and some very notable advances, mostly resulting from increased standardization of processes and the use of checklists, the overall magnitude of the problem remains enormous.
 

News & Analysis
Can Predictive Analytics Push Patient Safety Into the 21st Century?
For industries across the country, data has become a key element of operational improvement, and the use of predictive analytics in particular has opened a new opportunity to better utilize a growing repository of data.
HHS: $28 Billion Saved Through Patient Safety Efforts
Efforts to improve patient safety are paying off, according to a new Health and Human Services (HHS) department report.
Naval Medical Center San Diego Makes History as First DoD Medical Facility to Perform Allogeneic Stem Cell Infusion on a Patient 
The Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) performed their first allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell infusion on a patient—the first ever performed at a U.S. military treatment facility.
 

Featured Resource
Medication Reconciliation: Practical Strategies and Tools for Compliance
Medication reconciliation is a crucial step in preventing medical errors, and it has become an increased focus of regulators across the healthcare continuum as organizations concentrate on improving patient safety and quality of care. Medication Reconciliation: Practical Strategies and Tools for Compliance focuses on establishing a reliable medication reconciliation process for patients as they move from setting to setting.
 

  

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The New CMS Emergency Management Rule: Tips for Successful Implementation
Date: January 24, 2017 | 1:00PM-2:30PM ET
Understanding the key requirements of the new CMS emergency management regulations will be paramount to your agency’s continued compliance.
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