Risk management and patient safety
In 400 BC, the Greek doctor Hippocrates said, "The first thing is to do no harm"; the quote shows the importance of managing patient-related actions [...]
A software to measure errors
Adverse Events (AE) caused by medications present the greatest single risk of harm to patients in hospitals. The medication chain involves several sectors of the [...]
Measuring medication-related AEs
In 2017, the WHO launched a global challenge to decrease serious and preventable medication-related harm by 50% by 2022. And to help on this journey, [...]
Patient Safety Awareness
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation - PSMF is a global non-profit foundation whose mission is to eliminate preventable medical errors. According to PSMF, Adverse Events [...]
7 wastes in health
First of all, we must present the definition of the word waste. In the dictionary, the masculine noun waste means "exaggerated expenditure; squandering" and "use [...]
Triple aim: value in healthcare
Introduction The current healthcare system, in addition to failing to invest in disease prevention, lacks integration or teamwork, and is fragmented. Patients do not receive [...]
Occurrences of Adverse Events
Concern about human error and accident risk management in organizations is relatively recent. For at least two decades, several studies in different countries have been [...]
Patient Safety Core
Introduction In April 2013, ANVISA published Ordinance No. 529, which inserts in Brazilian healthcare the concern with Patient Safety. The ordinance had a great value [...]
Value of healthcare through technology
In 2018, Klaus Schwab, professor, engineer and economist, cited the digitization of healthcare as the fourth industrial revolution. The various technological innovations in information and [...]
Quality and Safety Tools – Part 2
1 Introduction In the first part of the text, presented in Newsletter 01, we discussed the relationship and the constant search for patient satisfaction, through [...]