Getting moving on patient safety--harnessing electronic data for safer care.

摘要

More than a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine released its famous report To Err Is Human, which set an ambitious agenda for the United States to reduce the number of Americans who were hurt or killed by medical errors and adverse events. In response, a series of new initiatives was launched, including the funding of new research on ways of making care safer and encouragement of programs shielding health care providers from liability if they reported adverse events. Federal agencies set up patient-safety organizations and established ambitious patient-safety goals; accrediting organizations set aggressive patient-safety standards; and providers hired patient-safety officers and implemented numerous patient-safety initiatives.