Healthcare organizations have focused on improving patient outcomes for years. Lately, however, the impact of diagnostic errors on outcomes has come under more intense scrutiny. Some research suggests ...

According to Prof. Mayer Brezis, “the greatest barriers to patient safety are not technological or scientific – but cultural," such as the fear of legal consequences and institutional defensiveness.

Use of an advanced EHR system could reduce patient safety events, according to research from Carnegie Mellon and the ECRI institute, which examined patient safety outcomes due to advanced EHR ...

Although hospitals and health systems do not closely track medical errors and misdiagnoses, these issues have begun to receive serious scrutiny. Evidence points to the need for immediate improvement ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has made dramatic progress in treating illness, it has made far less headway ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma or a patient doing poorly, there’s a real ...

The NHS and UK doctors are set to benefit from ground-breaking artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the way doctors interact with patients, reducing medical errors, cutting ...

"We’ve shown in a number of studies that every one point increase in burnout [as measured by a survey] increases the risk of a medical error in the next three ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...