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Newsletter, September 2022

Patient Safety Movement

This year’s theme is Medication Safety to underscore the need to implement measures that promote safe medication distribution to prevent medication errors and medication-related harm. Medication harm accounts for 50% of the overall preventable harm in medical care. $42

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Newsletter, August 2023

Patient Safety Movement

2B: Create a learning ecosystem and shared accountability system to ensure that evidence-based practices are implemented and goals for reduced harms and risks of harm for all Americans are realized. 4B: Harness revolutionary advances in information technologies. 3B: Improve data and transparency to reduce disparities.

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Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Vie Healthcare

For hospitals, it’s probably a little different as far as what ultimately persuades them. But sometimes being the first to bring something to the area or to market is a nice thing for hospital administration. It’s a medical technology company. Lauren (08:09): And I did that with a device called MitraClip.