Medical Errors

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Medical Errors investigates the issues of patient safety in today's healthcare organizations, including errors that occur that are preventable using tools like clinical decision support systems with alerts, medication cabinets and standardized care pathways. There are other events, on Medicare's "never list," which Medicare states should never occur and which they will not cover. What are the major types of preventable medical errors — including the ones on Medicare's "never" list? How can you make the best use of clinical decision support, safety processes, and other tools to reduce errors and adverse events? How can these tools be implemented successfully and seamlessly into your clinical processes? How do you document your actions to avoid not getting paid for what you do?

Learning Objectives:

Categorize the major types of medical errors, hazards, and quality objectives in a form that makes it easier to address them.
Select the most effective type of clinical decision support, process change, documentation, or other tool to address these errors and prevent adverse events.
Realize what makes doctors and nurses more or less likely to accept different types of safety interventions, and thus have more success in implementing them.
Make safety processes a seamless part of the clinical workflow as much as possible, including documentation to ensure that reimbursement is not withheld.

About the Speaker

Jonathan Teich
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier
Asst. Prof. of Medicine, Harvard University
Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. Jonathan Teich is chief medical informatics officer for Elsevier, the worldwide leading, multiple-media publisher of scientific, technical and health information products. He helps lead the development of the vision, strategy, and broad product design to transform Elsevier’s huge content and resource base into highly interactive clinical decision support and knowledge-based tools to support direct clinical practice and healthcare delivery. Dr. Teich also serves as assistant professor of medicine at Harvard and as an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). He founded the Clinical Informatics R&D department at Partners Healthcare, and was the primary designer of many of BWH's award-winning clinical information applications including CPOE, ambulatory records, clinical decision support systems, emergency medicine systems, and the Handbook electronic information library.

Dr. Teich has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, books, and editorials in the field of medical informatics and healthcare information systems. He participates in a variety of industry and government leadership councils on patient safety and quality of care, research-to-practice transfer, and clinical decision support. He currently co-chairs the panel responsible for the HHS-sponsored Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support. He also serves on the board of directors of HIMSS, and is a member of the American Health Information Community’s (AHIC) Quality Workgroup and AHIC Clinical Decision Support workgroup.

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