Patient Safety for Provider Organizations – Implementing Information Systems and Care Delivery Redesign to Ensure Patient Safety

IOM/Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Bridging the Gap in Patient Safety: Putting Information at the Point-of-Care

• Institute of Medicine's Patient Safety Data Standards Report
• Standards needed in support of patient safety - Data standards applicable to the collection, coding and classification of patient safety information
• Implementing patient safety at the point of care
  Re-designing patient-provider partnerships for care
• Call for leadership action

HCA Case Study – Developing and Implementing Patient Safety Initiatives in 200 Community Hospitals

• Strategies for successful implementation of technology solutions to reduce medication errors
• eMAR- HCA's electronic medical administration record for its project using bar-coding at the bedside
• ePOM- HCA's electronic physician order entry project
• Strategies to engage hospital medical staff in patient safety efforts
• Development of appropriate metrics to measure improvements in patient safety

Moderator: Suzanne Delbanco, Executive Director, The LeapFrog Group
Paul Tang, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Chair, Patient Safety Data Standards Committee, Institute of Medicine
George E. Thibault, MD, Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Partners HealthCare
Frank Houser, M.D., Corporate Medical Director and Senior Vice President, Quality, Hospital Corporation of America