Medical errors hit home for Bill Clinton
Keynoting the fourth annual World Patient Safety, Science and Technology Summit in Dana Point, California, the former president explained how patient safety has become "deeply personal" for him.
ProPublica: Healthcare providers rarely disclose medical errors
ProPublica shares insights from its latest project in patient safety: a three-year effort to collect detailed stories from more than 1,000 people who suffered or watched a loved one suffer harm during medical care.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Why the IOM’s big ask is the right one to reduce diagnostic errors in medicine
The Institute of Medicine made a big ask. But it's the right one.
IOM report could be another landmark for patient safety (video)
One person who is anxiously awaiting the new IOM volume is Dr. Carol Gunn, an occupational-medicine physician and patient-safety advocate in Portland, Oregon.
Improving medical errors by making interoperability a reality
To mark the anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s watershed report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the West Health Institute’s West Wire blog is running a series of interviews between its chief science and medical officer Dr. Joe Smith with IOM committee members who helped produce the report, as well as […]
Do we need a National Patient Safety Board?
To mark the anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s watershed report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the West Health Institute’s West Wire blog is running a series of interviews between its chief science and medical officer Dr. Joe Smith and IOM committee members who helped produce the report, as well as […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Reducing medical errors will require better reporting tools, engaged patients and – you guessed it – culture change
“Culture change.” Those words just keep coming up again and again in talk about what’s needed to reduce healthcare costs, to make better use of health information technology, and in this case to stop preventable medical errors that harm patients. Patient Safety America founder John James recently published a study in the Journal of Patient […]
Preventable harm associated with at least 210K deaths in U.S. hospitals annually, NASA scientist’s study shows
Preventable harm contributes to between 210,000 and 440,000 deaths in American hospitals, a new literature review in the Journal of Patient Safety finds. It divides these lethal mistakes into errors of commission, omission, communication, context and diagnostic errors. The smaller estimate, gleaned with help from the Global Trigger Tool, doesn’t include errors where the patient […]
New British study: equipment-related failure could account for about a quarter of OR errors
Technology/equipment problems cause 23.5 percent of operating room errors, according to an analysis of evidence in BMJ Quality & Safety. Comparing 28 quantitative studies out of the more than 19,000 “suitable” pieces found in databases, the authors found “inability to use the technology/equipment, lack of availability, and faulty devices/machines made up the bulk of the problems,” […]
Is a charting error a federal crime?
As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18. After a seven-year investigation, Dr. Natale was indicted for Medicare fraud. Unlike the majority of federal defendants, who feel compelled to cave in by signing a plea bargain even when innocent, […]
BioLabs Pegasus Park Cultivates Life Science Ecosystem
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Getting charged for rework in a hospital
In Reducing surgical complications: How to make it happen faster, I contrasted the way a hospital gets paid for rework with what happens in a manufacturing environment. In short: when a manufacturing process messes up a product the company doesn’t get paid at all, but when a hospital messes up it tends to get paid [...]