HIMSSCast: Improving patient safety and employee retention with best incident reporting practices

HIMSSCast: Improving patient safety and employee retention with best incident reporting practices
Healthcare IT News; by Andrea Fox; 7/26/24 
By modernizing systems and improving leadership and culture to embrace reporting, healthcare organizations can better address the top 10 patient safety concerns for 2024, says Heidi Raines, founder and CEO of Performance Health Partners. Ultimately improving the quality of care healthcare systems deliver and preventing harm requires a degree of self-reflection. Along with digital transformation, putting an easy-to-use incident reporting system in place can help healthcare organizations address today's chief patient safety concerns, including medication errors, care delays, workplace violence and preventing patient falls, said Raines.