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Patient Safety Tool: Sample Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Healthcare Safety Network offers a free, downloadable patient safety monthly reporting plan. The monthly reporting plan was designed to help ...
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. • ...
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 ...
WFAA8

Parkland Hospital details patient safety plan

DALLAS There is new information on Parkland Memorial Hospital's action plan to ensure patient safety. The plan was released on Friday in response to a 600-page government report that found the Dallas ...
AZ Central

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, ...
Frontiers

Responding to Harm with Compassion, Accountability and Transparency

A slow but significant change has occurred in how healthcare professionals and organizations are expected to respond when something has gone wrong in a patient’s care. In 2001, the US accreditation ...