“At the Patient Safety Movement, we believe that ZERO preventable deaths by 2020 is not just a worthy goal. With the right people, ideas, and technology, it’s an attainable goal. Many of the pieces of this puzzle already exist. Solving… Read more
Author: Peter Melrose
Learning Health System (LHS)
“Transforming the delivery of health care to maximize value, by measurably improving clinical outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs, is fundamental to reforming health care. Achieving such a goal requires fundamental changes to health care delivery, through so-called clinical transformation efforts… Read more
Cloud Healthcare Appliance Real-Time Solution as a Service Reference Architecture (CHARTSaaS RA)
N. B. — The title graphic depicts all the essential components of the CHARTSaaS RA, provided that they are implemented in a HIPAA-compliant Internet “cloud” environment and accessible only to accredited and licensed healthcare provider subscribers via a secure portal…. Read more
PSMF APSS Challenge 6: Hand-off Communications
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… Read more
Healthcare Transformation using Innovative Information Technology
Prompted by a recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Perspective article describing healthcare transformation,[1] and motivated by a recent study identifying medical mistakes as the third leading cause of death in the United States of America,[2] CHARTSaaS.org, a United… Read more