Becker's Hospital Review

AHA Comments on ONC’s Health IT Patient Safety Action Plan

The American Hospital Association has sent a letter commenting on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action and ...
Becker's Hospital Review

HHS Unveils Final HIT Patient Safety Plan

The final Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan, designed to ensure the safety of HIT for patients, has been released by HHS. • Facilitate reporting of HIT-related incidents. • ...
WUNC

Patient deaths at Mission: Report details failures and CMS accepts hospital's plan for correction

A report by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare reveals the details of multiple patient safety issues including delayed treatment, failures to provide timely care and other errors that caused the ...
Becker's ASC

Wake Forest Hospital Regains Medicare, Medicaid Status After Corrective Patient Safety Plan

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has regained their Medicare/Medicaid status after CMS approved its corrective action plan following a patient safety incident involving a two ...
The Daily Sentinel

Hospital board OKs patient safety plan

he Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital board of directors approved an organization-wide performance improvement and patient safety plan and a physician income guarantee at their regular meeting Tuesday. The ...
Fierce Healthcare

'Medical gaslighting' tops patient safety concerns for 2025, ECRI warns

Clinicians’ increased burdens are making it harder for valid concerns voiced by patients, their families and their caretakers to be acknowledged, raising the risk of missed diagnoses and exacerbated ...
Forbes

Patient Safety: Lessons On Creating A Global Safety Culture

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...
OPB

Oregon State Hospital releases plan to prevent future patient deaths

Oregon’s psychiatric hospital released a short-term “stabilization plan” to improve safety and medical care after a patient died at the Salem facility last month. The three-page document calls for ...
Becker's ASC

HHS Issues Final Health IT Patient Safety Plan

HHS announced the publication of the final Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan to ensure health IT systems do not jeopardize patient safety. The final plan addresses recommendations ...
Statesman Journal

This is Oregon State Hospital's 30-day plan after another patient death

Following a patient death in March, Oregon State Hospital released a 30-day stabilization plan to address safety concerns. The plan focuses on improving staff responses to critical incidents, ...
JD Supra

NJ Appellate Court Rules Investigative Documents Created in Compliance With the Patient Safety Act Are Protected

Under the Patient Safety Act (PSA), a health care facility’s incident and investigative reports are “absolutely privileged”, says the New Jersey Appellate Division. Earlier this month, the court held ...
webtv.un.org

Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety: A Global Imperative for Health Systems

Dr. Rudi Eggers is Director, Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters; Dr. Irina Papieva is Technical Officer, Patient Safety Flagship, Integrated Health Services, WHO ...