Fall, 2018
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the Fall 2018 Edition of The Clarity Post™. This is always a favorite time of year for us here in Chicago, when the heat and humidity of summer yields to the crisp and refreshing sights and sounds of fall. While seasons change, the work of continuously enhancing patient safety and healthcare quality remains central to our work and that of our healthcare clients.
As always we remain committed to bringing you resources and education relevant to the real and emerging risk-quality-safety issues facing healthcare providers today. In this issue we highlight both the continued risks to quality care, and the ways to address those risks with personal and innovative strategies. Our Hot Topic is Home Care. As a rapidly emerging setting where care is delivered and monitored, special considerations must be given to how to address Risk-Quality-Safety outside the framework of a hospital setting while at the same time realizing its benefits. Our goal is to keep focused awareness on addressing gaps and risks in care delivery even as the concentric circles of how that care is delivered expand.
We appreciate you spending some time with us, and we hope you find this latest edition helpful and informative.
Regards,
Anna Marie Hajek
President & CEO
Clarity Group, Inc.
THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE VOICE ON PATIENT SAFETY...AND HOW TO EMPOWER IT
Researchers from University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins Medicine recently published a case study that examines the impact of employee voice in healthcare organizations, and what factors often prevent employees from raising issues or complaints about hazardous conditions or troublesome behaviors involving co-workers. The study has broad implications for healthcare organizational safety and reporting strategies. The journal Academic Medicine has more.
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HEALTHCARE CYBERSECURITY REVIEW
Healthcare Growth Partners recently published their review on the state of cybersecurity in healthcare. In some ways there is reason to be hopeful, with notable positive trends and increasing investment in technologies focused on healthcare cybersecurity specifically, but the primary takeaway is just how big of a priority this must continue to be.
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HEALTHCARE HOT TOPIC: HOME CARE
A recent IHI report, No Place Like Home, Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home, takes a look at the home care arena and how it can be viewed from a healthcare risk management perspective. The report includes tools and strategies for making the home care delivery setting safer.
IHI Report >>
Expanding on the issues of Risk, Quality and Safety Management in the home healthcare setting, we invite you to read Clarity Group’s latest White Paper. In it we explore how to approach the creation of the Healthcare Risk Management Program for home healthcare services, whether owned by the healthcare system or contracted for by the hospital.
CLARITY Report >>
CLARITY CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF HEALTHCARE SAFETYZONE® ELECTRONIC INCIDENT REPORTING
Our mission is to empower healthcare providers to manage risk, quality, and safety across their healthcare system. The Healthcare SafetyZone® integrated event reporting and collaboration tool is central to this mission. For 15 years we have been proud to work with healthcare providers across the nation and the healthcare delivery continuum to assist in their quest to enhance quality and foster patient safety in all delivery settings. We remain focused on our vision of a healthcare system that is free of preventable harm.
CLARITY PSO CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF PIONEERING WORK IN THE FEDERAL PATIENT SAFETY ORGANIZATION PROGRAM
November 2018 marks ten years that Clarity PSO (P0015) has been listed as a Patient Safety Organization with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. As one of the first PSOs recognized by AHRQ, we work nationally with healthcare providers deepening our collective understanding of how to prevent error and enhance patient safety. Clarity PSO provides a wide range of patient safety activities in working with our clients--proven risk-quality-safety management services, benchmarking opportunities, detailed event review, education, and resources for evidence-based best practices--each designed to raise awareness and enhance safety.
Visit Clarity PSO >>
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