Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Commonwealth Fund, the United States has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, and Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

And it’s largely preventable—if not the disease itself (in the case of Type 2 diabetes) then at least the most severe outcomes. The patient is the most important member of their own healthcare team, as diabetes treatment involves a lot of self-care and preventative lifestyle choices.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

However, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation did strongly support the CMS proposal to move forward with the measure to incentivize hospitals to track and improve continuous monitoring of patients receiving opioids during their hospitalization. A recent survey found that many people are not aware of safety concerns in hospitals.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

” The most trusted spokespeople globally were found to be — far and away #1 — doctors and health authorities, among 4 in 5 consumers across the 12 nations polled. health consumers’ trust in hospitals fell (partly due to surprise medical bills and patients-as-payors’ financial stress).

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, as the report explains, some experts are concerned that widespread genetic testing may also identify mutations whose impact is unclear, creating anxiety and leading to further testing and to treatment of questionable value—putting patients at higher risk of harm from medical errors needlessly. Read the full article here.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

Following the statement, ECRI provides Acton Recommendations that hospitals and providers can consider to address the challenge. ” Clearly, patient safety challenges in 2023 go well beyond technology in and of itself. Here is ECRI’s top issue statement for the pediatric mental health crisis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free. From ATA’s perspective, we will continue to champion permanently removing what at the end of the day are artificial barriers that prevent patients from accessing care when and where they need it. Will this be the scenario in the U.S.?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

Analytic expertise is required to help prevent “information overload” and provide healthcare professionals with the tools for integrating and using the data for the betterment of that patient. Failure to adhere to guidelines can increase the risk of complications, drive up costs, and lengthen hospital stays [5].

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

bar coding, gravimetric analysis) both to help prevent errors during the manual steps in the process and to help catch errors before they reach the patient. Insufficient Governance of AI Used in Medical Technologies Risks Inappropriate Care Decisions AI offers the promise of speeding up processes and assisting in clinical decisions.

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Our founder, Joe Kiani, demanded that we call people in office at the local, state, and federal levels to hardwire patient safety; and align incentives so that every hospital puts in place actionable evidence-based incentives. We can get to zero harm, zero physical harm, zero suffering, and zero inequities.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Each year, WHO highlights a theme to bring awareness to a specific area where urgent action is necessary to reduce preventable harm. 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.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Topics include, the barriers to obtaining an accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), condensing the patient experience into a single CAT scan, the data supporting the new technology, and why 80% of the top 50 heart hospitals in the US use HeartFlow. And in about 30 to 40% of coronary CTs this will be applicable.’’

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare is the largest professional liability insurer of hospitals on the West Coast, providing coverage to more than 600 hospitals and healthcare facilities. More than 40 percent of these events are due to preventable errors. B Establish a Multidisciplinary National Patient Safety Team, Including Those Most Affected.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Health consumers will have an impact on the supply side of the health care system — hospitals, physicians, pharma, medical device companies, and health plans. More of that bridge between patient-and-doctor was built with the announcement from OMRON that its new product Vital Sight would enable remote heart health monitoring.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

ranked number 11 out of 11 nations with the exception of care process, based on four pillars: preventive care, safe care, coordinated care, and engagement and patient preferences. More granularly, prevention encompasses screening, counseling, and rates of avoidable hospital admissions for diabetes, asthma, and congestive heart failure.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

As many as 1 in 2 Americans has avoided some aspect of health care due to cost in the past year, such as postponing a needed visit to a doctor or not filling a prescription drug. Gary talked of a vision, “that our society would look this straight in the eye, prevent, treat with love and empathy and with programs based on science.”

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are known for our recognition of loved ones who have lost someone from preventable harm in healthcare. However, we also very strongly support the heroic efforts of our healthcare workers as we seek solutions to the system faults that lead to preventable errors occurring. For example, H.R.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported. If this data were made available, with the aid of AI technology reviewing medical records, would we have the same response as in the airline industry to prevent the same errors from occurring again and again?

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