Throughout the healthcare system, initiatives to promote patient safety, improve outcomes and report consistently on quality metrics are gaining considerable momentum. Many states have required ...

The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has released a new version of its adverse event collection and reporting system. ECRI Institute has continued to update and improve its web-based patient ...

The Patient Safety Authority (PSA) released its 2021 annual report, highlighting the agency’s expansion of education and reporting efforts to improve patient safety throughout the Commonwealth. Among ...

Ultimately improving the quality of care healthcare systems deliver and preventing harm requires a degree of self-reflection. Along with digital transformation, putting an easy-to-use incident ...

A hospital’s patient safety initiatives are only as effective as the tools used to track and analyze incidents. Despite significant progress over the past two decades following the 2005 Patient Safety ...

Patient safety likely remains the nation's third leading cause of death and addressing it needs to be a key national priority, a presidential panel said this week. The panel released a report ...

For the report, Press Ganey analyzed data on 12.5 million patient encounters, 1 million health system employees and more than 550,000 safety events reported in 2023. Patient experience data covers ...

Incident reporting systems, which are often computer based and require no in-person interactions, can enable health care staff who perceive low psychological safety ...

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has awarded a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Inc., McLean, Va., to operate existing safety reporting systems that benefit both NASA and ...

University Medical Center architectural tour -- three in-patient towers jut toward Canal Street University Medical Center architectural tour -- three in-patient towers jut toward Canal Street (Photo ...