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Newsletter, November 2023

Patient Safety Movement

The American Lung Association urges adults to ask their doctor if they are up to date on their CDC-recommended adult vaccinations and take a personal risk assessment at Lung.org/pneumococcal. And it was there that I better understood a root cause for the harm we see in healthcare. We can do this.

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Newsletter, September 2023

Patient Safety Movement

The APSF president, Daniel Cole, MD, chose to focus this year on “Emerging Medical Technologies—A Patient Safety Perspective on Wearables, Big Data and Remote Care.” On September 11, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) had its virtual meeting where it reviewed quality and safety of healthcare.