The importance of near miss reporting in healthcare
You didn’t see it coming Imagine your hospital had just encountered its first case of wrong-site surgery. As the Quality […]
Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety: Get it Right, Make it Safe!
This year’s World Patient Safety Day theme is “Improving diagnosis for patient safety” with the slogan “Get it right, make
Strategies to Improve Medication Safety and Reduce Harm in Polypharmacy
In our previous blog, we discussed high-risk situations arising from look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) medications and high-alert medications which can cause significant medication
Strategies to Reduce Medication Errors in High-risk Situations
In our previous blog Medication Safety – A Priority in Patient Safety, we briefly touched on the three priority areas where
Medication Without Harm – A Priority in Patient Safety
Are medication errors one of the most frequently reported incident types in your hospital? What can be done to prevent
How To Create-Track-Monitor Healthcare Incident Report Using Excel?
Incident Reporting in Hospitals In the healthcare industry, incident reporting is an important task that records all the unusual events
Under-reporting Patient Safety Incidents: A Real Problem
Amy had been a staff nurse in the same hospital for 30 years. Her shift starts with making rounds in
What can Healthcare Sector learn from Aviation Industry?
Ever since we spoke to Dr. Rosas, we have been wondering how healthcare safety can learn from the aviation industry – which, despite
Digitize, Digitalize and Digital Transformation
Yes, you read that right. There is a small but appreciable difference between digitize, digitalize and digital transformation. We’ll try to articulate this
Digitization – A Pathway Towards Digital Transformation
If we look back two and half decades, businesses have to provide input to their computing devices to convert data
Moving from a paper-based system to a digital system
This article expounds on the effects of a paper-based vs a digital document system on the incident reporting process and the various
Integrating Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare
To deliver safer and better care, healthcare providers will need to adopt proactive risk management, system-wide thinking, process digitalisation, effective