Sentact Acquires Performance Health Partners and Vizient Patient Safety Organization to Drive Patient Safety At-Scale

Sentact acquires Performance Health Partners and Vizient PSO to expand patient safety solutions and drive safer, ...
Becker's ASC

Developing a Patient Safety Organization: Q&A With Kathy Martin of the GE PSO

Kathy Martin is managing director of the GE PSO, part of GE Healthcare Performance Solutions. Q: Why did GE Healthcare consider it important to start a PSO? Kathy Martin: A focus on patient safety has ...
Becker's ASC

Somnia Anesthesia Recognized as a Patient Safety Organization

Somnia Anesthesia has announced it has been recognized as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Somnia is the first anesthesia-only management company ...
Opinion

BayCare scores well on patient safety. Here’s how | Column

When people come to a hospital for care, they are often at their most vulnerable. They trust the caregivers with their lives, their health and their future. As far back as ancient Greece, Hippocrates’ ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Reporting Data While Protecting Patient Privacy

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed the PSOPPC in support of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, which provides legal and confidentiality protections to ...
Law

The Rise of Patient Safety Organizations

The 1999 Institute of Medicine report, "To Err Is Human," brought patient safety to the forefront with its alarming findings, most jarringly encapsulated in its conclusion that medical error-related ...
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 ...
United States Army

WAMC receives “A” score from Leapfrog for patient safety

FORT BRAGG, NC -Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) has received an “A” score from Leapfrog, a national nonprofit organization ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Checklist for Participating in a Patient Safety Organization

A checklist for leaders to evaluate their organization’s preparation for participating in a patient safety organization is available for free from the American Medical Association’s Center for Patient ...
MedCity News

Patient Safety Structural Measure Marks Progress Towards Safer and Compassionate Care

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...
Business Wire

Sanaz Massoumi Joins Patient Safety Movement Foundation as New Chief Operating Officer

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit committed to achieving zero preventable patient harm and death across the globe by 2030, announced ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB Reporter

The Medication Management Research Network (MMRN) at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences has a new role in helping to improve patient safety in Western New ...