The health care industry has many safeguards to ensure high-quality care is provided throughout our nation’s hospitals. Yet, medical errors continue to harm an estimated 1.2 million individuals each year. Throughout the managing medical errors series, we’ve explored how other industries use AI to mitigate human error.
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Sep 1, 2022
Is your hospital a member of multiple PSOs with each focusing on a different aspect of quality improvement? If yes, how is your hospital using those programs to learn and change behavior moving forward? If no, is joining multiple PSOs something your hospital should consider and research? Join us next month as we do a series re-cap!
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The National Center for Biotechnology recently updated the informational page on medical error and reduction, and the extent of the challenge faced by the health care industry is daunting. Did you know medical errors result in 100,000 people dying each year and cost upward of $20 billion dollars a year? Missed diagnoses play a big role in these numbers. According to The Joint Commission, diagnostic errors lead to injury or death for 40,000 to 80,000 patients a year.
Health Care Can Learn From Credit Card Companies
Jul 1, 2022
Health care has long struggled with detecting and addressing medical errors. It’s been more than 20 years since the groundbreaking U.S. Institute of Medicine’s piece To Err is Human and, as an industry, we’re far from achieving zero errors.
Managing Medical Errors, Learning from Other Industries
Jun 1, 2022
Every process that involves humans is vulnerable to mistakes. Every industry experiences errors. Do you wonder how this impacts our daily lives? Here are a few examples: 90%...