At last month’s 7th annual World Patient Safety Summit, the expert “Hospital Leadership Panel” discussed the need for open transparency by hospital systems regarding their medical errors. During the presentation, the MedStar Health’s Institute for Quality and Safety developed CANDOR (Communication and Optimal Resolution) program through the Center for Open and Honest communication in Healthcare, [...]

Modern medicine is amazing but has become extremely complex. So complex, that healthcare professionals face situations they are not always able to deal with. So what does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless? Dr. Jens Schwindt is an experienced neonatologist and Founder of SIMCharacters, a Vienna-based [...]

Registration is now open for the 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit taking place January 18th and 19th in Huntington Beach California, which is hosted by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and co-convened by the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. During the event, a variety of expert keynote speaker [...]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety “is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum.” Common healthcare errors include patients receiving the wrong medications, contracting hospital acquired infections, having the wrong [...]