{"id":1631,"date":"2013-09-28T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2013-10-11T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:00:33","slug":"reducing-medical-errors-will-require-better-reporting-tools-engaged-patients-and-you-guessed-it-culture-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Reducing medical errors will require better reporting tools, engaged patients and \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 culture change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MedCityNews.com\u00a0 September 27, 2013 8:30 am by <a title=\"Posts by Deanna Pogorelc\" href=\"http:\/\/medcitynews.com\/author\/dpogorelc\/\" rel=\"author\">Deanna\u00a0 Pogorelc<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 \u201cCulture change.\u201d Those words just keep coming up again and again in talk\u00a0 about what\u2019s needed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/Publications\/BriefingBook\/Detail.aspx?id=2178\">reduce\u00a0 healthcare costs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2013\/08\/healthcares-interoperability-problem-isnt-about-technology-a-qa-with-himss-ceo\/\">to\u00a0 make better use of health information technology<\/a>, and in this case to stop\u00a0 preventable medical errors that harm patients.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/patientsafetyamerica.com\/\">Patient Safety America<\/a> founder\u00a0 John James recently <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/journalpatientsafety\/Fulltext\/2013\/09000\/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx\">published\u00a0 a study in the Journal of Patient Safety<\/a> that estimated the annual number of\u00a0 medical errors in U.S. at up to four times the number the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iom.edu\/Reports\/1999\/to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system.aspx\">Institute\u00a0 of Medicine estimated<\/a> in 1999. He joined other experts representing vendors,\u00a0 providers and pharmacists on Thursday for a TEDMED Great Challenges Google+\u00a0 hangout focused on eliminating medial errors.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2013\/09\/reducing-medical-errors-will-require-better-reporting-tools-engaged-patients-guessed-culture-change\/#ixzz2g9dyNLdJ\" target=\"_blank\"> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=vSrW8rYHgJI\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1632\" title=\"Marshall Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marshall-Allen-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marshall-Allen-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marshall-Allen.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedCityNews.com\u00a0 September 27, 2013 8:30 am by Deanna\u00a0 Pogorelc\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 \u201cCulture change.\u201d Those words just keep coming up again and again in talk\u00a0 about what\u2019s needed to reduce\u00a0 healthcare costs, <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1631\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,59],"tags":[317,652,316,653],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-institute-of-medicine","tag-john-james","tag-medical-errors","tag-patient-safety-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}