In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

HealthGrades, a provider of healthcare information for consumers, analyzed patient safety data for hospitalizations between 2008 and 2010. Researchers found that better communication among staff ...

Language services are essential for health equity and good patient health outcomes, but recent executive actions threaten to ...

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) has recognized UPMC Williamsport through its 2025 Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition program. The recognition honors ...

One cyberattack can mean the difference between life and death. Every week, another headline exposes the terrifying reality that, in today’s digitally driven healthcare environment, cybersecurity ...

Chalk one up for patient safety. Make that $110 million. Through the Partnership for Patients initiative – a nationwide public-private collaboration that began in 2011 to reduce preventable ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Following the cyberattack, the American Hospital ...

Bassett Healthcare Network has announced the appointment of Dr. Carlton J. Rule as chief quality officer. According to a Bassett news release, Rule will oversee system-wide quality programs, patient ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

Lucian Leape, MD, former chief of pediatric surgery at Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine and a pioneer in the field of patient safety, has died. He was 94. Dr. Leape co-authored a 1999 “landmark” ...