Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Sample Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Healthcare Safety Network offers a free, downloadable patient safety monthly reporting plan. The monthly reporting plan was designed to help ...
HealthLeaders Media

Expert Reflects on New Patient Safety Action Plan: 'Healthcare Organization Leadership Is Integral'

The new patient action plan stresses leadership, patient and family engagement, workforce safety, and learning systems. A new "action plan" to advance patient safety addresses fundamental elements of ...
Medscape

How a National Patient Safety Plan Can Help Clinicians

The safety of the healthcare workforce is one of four foundational areas in a new national report on patient safety, highlighting how intertwined the well-being of patients remains with those who care ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Sample Fire Safety Plan

The Minnesota Health Department offers a free, downloadable sample fire safety plan for healthcare organizations. The six-page form allows healthcare providers to specify its purpose for a fire safety ...
Becker's Hospital Review

HHS Releases Final Health IT Patient Safety Plan

HHS announced the release of the final Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan to prevent health IT-related patient harm. The final plan addresses recommendations from the Institute of ...
Fierce Healthcare

Hospital overhauls patient safety plan after serious breach

Hospital overhauls patient safety plan after serious breach Aug 22, 2011 11:34am Providers ...
HeraldNet

Gregoire pitches patient safety plan

OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire on Friday proposed tougher policing of health care professionals and more transparency of hospitals’ patient safety records. The governor, who has made expanded health ...
Modern Healthcare

HHS signs off on IT patient-safety plan

HHS has released its final plan to address patient safety issues arising from the use of health information technology. But putting in place a framework to monitor and then act on those issues remains ...
The Boston Globe

Federal government releases patient safety plan for electronic health records

The federal office in charge of a massive rollout of electronic health records has issued a plan aimed at making those systems safer by encouraging providers to report problems to patient safety ...
Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS, AHA support ONC's patient safety plan

Both the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the American Hospital Association sent letters to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari this week commenting on ONC's ...
Becker's Hospital Review

AHA Comments on ONC’s Health IT Patient Safety Action Plan

The American Hospital Association has sent a letter commenting on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action and ...
Computer Weekly

Digital Clinical Safety Strategy adds to NHS patient safety plan

The UK government has published a Digital Clinical Safety Strategy with the goal of ensuring digital technologies in health and care are safe, while using those tools to improve patient safety. The ...