Who Killed Patient Safety?
today Pascal wishes to comment on a recent article by Hemmelgarn et al in which the authors posed a question: “Who Killed Patient Safety?”
Pascal’s Virtual Patient Safety White Paper Update
We're pleased to release the latest update to the white paper describing the incredible patient harm reduction health systems are achieving by using our "Virtual Patient Safety "(VPS) solution.
Patient Harm: An Unwelcome “Fellow Traveler”
The incidence of patient harm has been widely documented. A paper by Sammer et al showed that there is a relationship between “all-cause harm” outcomes and performance measures such as safety culture, employee engagement, and patient experience.
Transforming Risk Management in Healthcare
The most important goal of risk management should not be to minimize payout but to deliver a superior patient experience at a lower cost. Identifying serious harm or the risk thereof within 24 hours and acting to ameliorate and avoid with a requisite level of transparency is the path to a new generation of risk management.
Landmark HHS OIG Report on Adverse Events and Patient Harm
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just released a landmark study reporting that 25% of Medicare patients suffer patient harm and that 43% of those, or about 12% of the total, are preventable.
CMS Proposes Another EHR-based Hospital Harm Measure
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the FY2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule governing payment for the inpatient setting. Prominent in the adverse event domain was the CMS announcement of a new EHR-based hospital harm measure; the opioid-related event eCQM measure (NQF #3501e).