Scroll down to read these articles in this Issue: - 20th NW Patient Safety Conference Highlights
Over 200 Registrants, Have You Registered? Conference Sponsorship The Summer 2023 Speak-UP! Award Period is Currently Open for Nominations - Report to the President: A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety
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20th NW Patient Safety Conference Highlights The landmark Federal legislation that would establish a National Patient Safety Board (NPSB)
This session will describe a proposed federal independent agency, the National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) modeled in-part after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). KFF Health News featured a story in June 5, 2023 on Will a ‘National Patient Safety Board,’ Modeled After the NTSB, Actually Fly? Why can’t hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes? That’s the rationale behind calls to create a “National Patient Safety Board,” an independent federal agency that would be modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board. Come learn the details and interact in a panel discussion with the folks quoted in the article.
When: October, 18, 10-11 am PT ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ New computer models reveal the drivers of nurse workload, missed care, and other quality threats in healthcare systems
With all the talk about staffing issues, how do we really know how staffing levels impact patient care and safety? Join the conversation with Patrick Neumann, PhD’s about using computer simulation to understand how the design of the healthcare system affects nurse workload and, consequently, healthcare quality indicators such as “missed care”. Now we’ve got all the proof we need!
When: October, 17, 10-11 am PT ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Artificial Intelligence: improving the patient-provider experience in healthcare
“Oh, I'd give a lot to see the hospital. Probably needles and sutures. All the pain. They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures. Oh, the terrible pain!” (Star Trek: The Original Series, "The City on the Edge of Forever", written by Harlan Ellison, 6 Apr, 1967).
This quote from Dr. Leonard McCoy, infers the state of 20th century is, well, a bit primitive. So, are we moving toward more advanced medical practices? Are, we already there? Forget the science fiction and come listen to Harjinder Sandhu, PhD, Vice President, R&D at Microsoft-Nuance to learn about actual applications and examples of artificial intelligence that are transformational to patients and providers. It will present how AI is improving the patient journey from enhancing patients and provider collaboration, improving the diagnostic process to alleviating provider fatigue and burnout.
When: October, 18, 9 10 am PT |
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Over 200 Registrants, Have you registered?
This year’s conference focuses on solutions to problems rather than the problems themselves. We have fantastic faculty, and the presentations are available for a year. Of course, CE credits are available. Keynote Presentations
- Umair A. Shah, MD, Secretary of Health, Washington State: Opening Keynote
- Karthik Sivashanker, MD, Vice President of Equitable Health Systems in the Center for Health Equity at the American Medical Association. “Operationalizing Racial Justice and Equity in Health Care”.
- Tejal Gandhi, MD: Chief Safety and Transformation Officer at Press Ganey. “Takeaways from the Pandemic: A Practical, Positive Spin on What Works”.
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Patricia McGaffigan, President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and IHI’s senior sponsor for the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety. “Strengthening our Resilience - Implementation of Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety.”
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Saul Weingart, MD: Professor of Medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine and past President of Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital. “Finding the Patient in Patient Safety”
Plus, nine breakout sessions with regional, national, and international experts including topics such as sustaining safety programs during leadership change, the impact of climate change on safety and quality, advancing cultural safety and relationship based approaches to healing, artificial intelligence to improve the patient-provider experience, staffing levels and safety, and techniques to improve patient-provider communication to name a few.
Information: Click here for conference website
Venue: Virtual. Presentations available for a year.
Dates: October 17 & 18, Time: 7:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. Pacific.
CE Credits: Yes. See registration page for the list.
Fees: Healthcare professionals and anyone seeking continuing educational credits, $75.
Patients, their families, and students, Free Discounts for registrants with CPHQ, CPPS, and BCPA professional certifications. Contact wpsc@qualityhealth.org or call Steve Levy, executive director, 206-204-7383.
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We invite you to support the 20th Annual NW Patient Safety Conference. Following the overwhelming positive feedback from last year’s attendees, the conference will be virtual again this year on October 17 & 18. Sponsors like you allow us to attract and provide an accessible, high value event for hundreds of health care professionals, patients and families in the Pacific NW. Sponsorship information is available here.
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Thank you to those who are leading the way for this year’s sponsorship! |
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The Summer 2023 Speak-UP! Award Period is Currently Open for Nominations The next round for the WPSC Speak-Up! Award is taking nominations for the Summer 2023 award. The nomination deadline is September 28th. Nominations may be made on the Speak-UP! Award page.
This is a great way to recognize staff and Washington healthcare organizations for the fantastic work they are doing. It is open to clinical and non-clinical employees/team members from all Washington healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, pharmacies, long term care (e.g., skilled nursing facilities & assisted living facilities), clinics and physician offices to name some examples.
For more information go to the Speak-Up! Award website or contact Steve Levy, Executive Director, WPSC at slevy@qualityhealth.org. |
| Congratulations! Spring 2023 Award Recipient:
Dani Morton OB Surgical Technologist at Univ. of Washington - Medical Center |
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Report to the President: A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety. |
Today, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its Report to the President: A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety. This landmark report details the urgent need for federal attention to the growing problem of medical error and makes four recommendations for actions to address it.
The first recommendation is to appoint a patient safety coordinator reporting to the President and create a multidisciplinary National Patient Safety Team within the Department of Health and Human Services. The report also recommends advancing technological solutions to address patient safety and alleviate the burden on the front lines.
The recommendations fall into four focus areas: Elevating patient safety research and leveraging technical advances
Improving measurement of patient safety events Standardizing approaches to identifying and preventing harms Promoting safety culture and coordination on safety and quality within organizations
We applaud the PCAST Patient Safety Working Group for elevating patient safety as a national priority. We urge you to write to the President asking him to take action on these recommendations and establish the National Patient Safety Team as the first major milestone. To further support this effort, the NPSB Advocacy Coalition is making progress in the House to re-introduce the updated National Patient Safety Board Act with Republicans and Democrats in the fall. These parallel efforts are designed to complement one another. |
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