HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2023

There is fevered speculation about how the technology might be used in other areas of medical technology to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden on hard-pressed, and often under-resourced, medical practitioners. Ensuring transparency, accountability, and patient autonomy must be prioritized.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

She also performs bookkeeping duties as the finance and marketing coordinator for PSMF’s accounting department. He also handles the Foundation’s financial accounts, payroll, and financial assets. The PSMF was established through the support of the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0% There should have been accountability some time ago since this doctor was noted as having harmed six previous patients. Just Culture” is a system of shared accountability in which organizations are accountable for the systems they have designed.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

NEW FEDERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NURSING HOME SAFETY The White House has just announced a plan to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes, aimed to protect seniors from an industry known for its lack of accountability.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While I was getting prepped for my procedure, I spoke with the nurse about delegation of tasks, accountability, and ultimately where quality and safety stood in the line of priority for the facility. And it was there that I better understood a root cause for the harm we see in healthcare.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Five conditions account for 39% of serious misdiagnosis-related harms: stroke, myocardial infarction, aortic aneurysm/dissection, spinal cord compression/injury, and venous thromboembolism. The authors estimate that with 130 million ED visits a year in the US, 7.4 million patients are misdiagnosed, 2.6

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The six most frequent underlying causes of pregnancy-related death — mental health conditions (22.7%), hemorrhage (13.7%), cardiac and coronary conditions (12.8%), infection (9.2%), thrombotic embolism (8.7%), and cardiomyopathy (8.5%) — accounted for over 75% of pregnancy-related deaths.

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