N.B. — This post is based on one of the continuously expanding roster of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) a.k.a. “Challenges” as defined and described by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and published at its web site (http://patientsafetymovement.org/challenges-solutions/actionable-patient-safety-solutions-apss/). Because the Foundation has set a goal of Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2020 (http://patientsafetymovement.org/), these […]
Month: January 2017
Clinician-computer Cooperation: clinical cognitive support mitigates medical errors
Real-time interaction between programmed processes and included algorithms together with clinical users can create knowledge by: presenting analytic results for clinician selection/verification recording selections for subsequent application/optimization notifying clinicians of pre-defined event occurrence and prompting for next action, free-form or… Read more
Clinician Creativity: clinicians create custom medical and healthcare apps
IT tools and methods for healthcare provider subject matter experts to create apps easily and without knowledge transfer to IT staff will: enable creation of decision-action rules tables, interactive processes and other real-time/just-in-time digital artifacts render knowledge actionable by including… Read more
Computerized Cognition: computers can provide real-time cognitive support
Real-time cloud-based computing can supplement the human cognitive limitations of professional healthcare providers by: retrieving immediately any data from accessible source files locating and running any accessible programmed procedures executing Bayesian multivariate similarity/predictive analyses executing Boolean rules with compound conditions/actions… Read more
Clinical Complexity: medicine is information-intensive and time-critical
The practice of medicine and delivery of healthcare is complex because of many factors, principle among which are: patient individual heredity and personal history uniqueness extreme volume, velocity, variety and veracity of information multiplicity of caregivers and variety of care… Read more
Emerging diseases/new outbreaks: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue
N.B. — This post is based on one of the continuously expanding roster of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) a.k.a. “Challenges” as defined and described by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and published at its web site (http://patientsafetymovement.org/challenges-solutions/actionable-patient-safety-solutions-apss/). Because the Foundation has set a goal of Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2020 (http://patientsafetymovement.org/), these […]
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue
N.B. — This post is based on one of the continuously expanding roster of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) a.k.a. “Challenges” as defined and described by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and published at its web site (http://patientsafetymovement.org/challenges-solutions/actionable-patient-safety-solutions-apss/). Because the Foundation has set a goal of Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2020 (http://patientsafetymovement.org/), these […]
Behavioral health management protocols: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue
N.B. — This post is based on one of the continuously expanding roster of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) a.k.a. “Challenges” as defined and described by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and published at its web site (http://patientsafetymovement.org/challenges-solutions/actionable-patient-safety-solutions-apss/). Because the Foundation has set a goal of Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2020 (http://patientsafetymovement.org/), these […]
Vaccine coverage: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue
N.B. — This post is based on one of the continuously expanding roster of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) a.k.a. “Challenges” as defined and described by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and published at its web site (http://patientsafetymovement.org/challenges-solutions/actionable-patient-safety-solutions-apss/). Because the Foundation has set a goal of Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2020 (http://patientsafetymovement.org/), these […]
Contaminated water: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue
N.B. — This post is based on one of the continuously expanding roster of Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) a.k.a. “Challenges” as defined and described by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and published at its web site (http://patientsafetymovement.org/challenges-solutions/actionable-patient-safety-solutions-apss/). Because the Foundation has set a goal of Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2020 (http://patientsafetymovement.org/), these […]