HealthIT Answers October 26, 2023
Health systems never stop looking for opportunities to improve patient safety. Yet, seizing these opportunities is not always easy. Despite decades of research linking patient safety measures to improved financial and clinical outcomes, hospitals often struggle to streamline inefficient workflows at the root of many harmful patient safety events.
Efforts have been made to develop and implement process improvement projects that lead to better patient outcomes, but substantial barriers — from the inherent complexity of healthcare, to a culture that’s deliberately slow and cautious about adopting new things – makes long-term and lasting change extremely difficult. With 70% of process improvement projects across industries failing, hospitals need to pursue solutions that can more readily deliver the change health systems seek.
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