Author: Peter Melrose

J. Peter Melrose, BA, is a solution-oriented healthcare provider information technology (IT) professional and innovative leader. Currently, he is the founder and Principal Consultant at CHARTSaaS, LLC, a corporation focused on development and delivery of an IT solution for use by professional and organizational healthcare providers to create and operate IT applications a.k.a. “apps” for real-time cognitive support in the conduct of administrative and clinical use cases. The IT solution is named Cloud Healthcare Application Real-Time (CHART) solution as a service. During his forty-five year professional career, Pete has worked as an informatics researcher focused on multi-variate statistical analysis for psychiatric diagnosis, a business analyst, a telecom internal auditor, a software inventor and developer and manager, an addiction treatment organization board Chair, a full-time and out-sourced Chief Information Officer at both private and public sector healthcare enterprises, a product and project manager at independent software vendor firms, an healthcare IT strategic planning and regulatory compliance consultant, an entrepreneur, and the founder and President of a not-for-profit organization for healthcare provider IT solution development. While at IBM, he was a General Business Services consultant in government and healthcare engagements, a certified Project Management Professional®, and the Worldwide Middleware Marketing Manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences with an emphasis on business process management and service-oriented architecture products and both development and implementation projects. Integral with his professional activity, Pete has presented and published regarding most of his innovative and thought leadership management and IT projects.

Implementing the IHI-SRH Framework for Safe, Reliable and Effective Care

Peter Melrose

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 […]

Emerging diseases/new outbreaks: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue

Peter Melrose

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

Peter Melrose

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

Peter Melrose

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

Peter Melrose

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

Peter Melrose

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 […]

Quality data transparency: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue

Peter Melrose

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 […]

Sterilization and reprocessing: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue

Peter Melrose

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 […]

Patient Care Transitions: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue

Peter Melrose

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 […]

Growth of antibiotic resistance: a Becker’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Issue

Peter Melrose

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 […]