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Finally, doctors are trusted data stewards for patients — something we’ve appreciated since the advent of HIPAA. identifying the top 3 occupations in the U.S. for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists).
Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.
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