Fierce Health Technology January 28, 2020
If you thought medical errors were only a big problem in hospitals, you’d be wrong.
Globally, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary and outpatient healthcare settings, with up to 80% of those medical errors preventable, according to a new white paper released today by the nonprofit Foundation for the Innovation and Development of Health Safety.
The white paper, the first from the foundation, is being released at the group’s first annual international symposium that focused on patient safety in a digital world held at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
The white paper highlighted research that estimates that in primary and ambulatory care, where more than 8 billion patient encounters occur annually in the 34...