The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded work to address patient safety issues that occur with health information technology, particularly electronic health records, recently received critical testing and review from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In their report “Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic Health Records,” the National Institute of [...]
ECRI Institute is committed to patient safety, as it is the key element of our mission. The Patient Safety Center contains world-class research, guidance, and tools made available to the public. These publicly available free resources are offered to help all healthcare providers improve the quality and safety of the care they provide.
The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety completed a deep dive of patient safety events reported to ECRI Institute PSO that pertain to patient identification. Patient identification errors can result in grave consequences including delayed or inappropriate care and misdiagnoses. Get the toolkit today.
It is prudent to review policies and procedures after an instigating event; however, even in the absence of events, policies and procedures should be reviewed regularly. Looking to evidence, the literature, and professional organizations' and accrediting bodies' publications, the facility should strive to craft policies and procedures that are custom-tailored to their goals and aims. [...]
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