Pascal Metrics Blog
World Patient Safety Day, 2020
The World Health Organization ("WHO") has declared today, September 17, to be "World Patient Safety Day." The WHO's slogan is “Safe health workers, Safe patients.” Clearly, the idea is: safer health workers results in safer patients. Pascal Metrics affirms this truth.
A New Era for Patient Safety
Today, Pascal is pleased to announce groundbreaking results and a new way of doing patient safety called virtual patient safety (“VPS”), a first-ever capability for healthcare that enables health systems to measure and manage "All-cause harm All the time for All patients.”
Value-based Patient Safety
Pascal Metrics has pioneered “value-based patient safety,” an essential but often overlooked dimension of the healthcare field’s overall move to “value-based care” or “high-value care.”
2019 Top 10 Most Prevalent Patient Harms Happening in U.S. Hospitals
The harms listed below are ones that result in increased hospitalization, irreversible damage or death:
Artificial Intelligence and Patient Safety
Pascal Metrics was the first in the field and industry to pioneer AI-assisted patient safety with its unique data set of clinically validated EHR-based adverse event outcomes.
The Top 3 Misconceptions About the Use of Triggers in EHR-based Real-Time Patient Safety
1. It takes a lot of people and a sophisticated health system to use triggers to identify and reduce harm.
False. This is one of the most common misconceptions encountered by Pascal, and it is held by veteran researchers and young practitioners alike...Subscribe to Blog Updates
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