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PCAST Recommendations on Transformational Effort on Patient Safety

Patient Safety Movement

2B: Create a Learning Ecosystem and Shared Accountability System to Ensure That Evidence Based Practices are Implemented and Goals for Reduced Harms and Risks of Harm for All Americans are Realized. 2C: Advance Interoperability of Healthcare Data and Assure Free Access to the Tracking of Harms and Use of Evidence-Based Solutions.

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PCAST Recommendations on Transformational Effort on Patient Safety

Patient Safety Movement

2B: Create a Learning Ecosystem and Shared Accountability System to Ensure That Evidence Based Practices are Implemented and Goals for Reduced Harms and Risks of Harm for All Americans are Realized. 2C: Advance Interoperability of Healthcare Data and Assure Free Access to the Tracking of Harms and Use of Evidence-Based Solutions.

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

The five strategic objectives for advancing this systemwide transformation include (1) Drive Accountable Care, (2) Advance Health Equity, (3) Support Innovation, (4) Address Affordability, and (5) Partner to Achieve System Transformation. Strategic Objective 1: Drive Accountable Care. Strategic Objective 2: Advance Health Equity.

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What the Telehealth Expansion Act means for tackling social determinants and boosting health equity

Healthcare It News

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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PCAST Report to U.S. President Outlines “A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety”

Patient Safety Movement

More than 40 percent of these events are due to preventable errors. The PCAST report reveals that despite these efforts by many healthcare workers and organizations to reduce preventable medical errors through implementing evidence-based safety protocols, nationwide implementation of many of these known solutions has lagged.

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Key Healthcare Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023

Sheppard Health Law

trillion in funding across a range of domestic initiatives, including certain appropriations to healthcare and related programs. Key Funding of Related Healthcare Programs. 61] In addition, the Committee is tasked with conducting an evaluation of federal programs related to serious mental illnesses and their corresponding impact. [62]

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Newsletter, August 2023

Patient Safety Movement

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. 4C: Develop Federal Healthcare Delivery Systems’ capacities and showcase results as exemplars for safer healthcare.