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Patient Safety Timeline

Public awareness of medical errors is higher than it has ever been. The well-documented rate of serious incidences has been tagged at 44,000+ deaths per year and priced by the Institute of Medicine at $37.6 billion each year.  A national poll conducted by the National Patient Safety Foundation found that forty-two percent of respondents had been affected by a medical error, either personally or through a friend or relative. As health care transforms into a consumer driven industry, there is a need to show tangible quality and safety compliance at local, state, and national levels.

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Knowledge is assuredly power when it comes to proactively pinpointing areas of concern and mitigating unsafe products, procedures and practices.  A survey done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts found that “consumers are hungry for information to help them make educated decisions when they choose their physician or their hospital," But when they have to make those important decisions about where to get care, there is very little usable and reliable information today." The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare via the Joint Commission is expanding the range of quality and safety requirements with regards to payment for performance.  Product recalls and medical errors require traceability, and the number of agencies to which reporting is required grows daily. As of December 2006, 27 states had passed legislation or regulation related to hospital reporting of adverse events to a state agency.  Many of these new laws and regulations are intended to hold health care facilities accountable for weaknesses in their systems. They also have the potential to improve patient safety through event report analysis and by dissemination of best practices and lessons learned. On top of all these growing requirements for accountability are the increased costs of healthcare IT with respect to implementing and maintaining these systems.

Compliance

It's an issue that continues to change and grow. Safepost was designed to handle compliance at several different levels. From Balanced Scorecard Iniatives, to JCAHO's 2007 National Patient Safety Goals to Notifiable Diseases and MedWatch Product reporting. The Safepost solution is positioned to manage each of these compliance needs and more. Read more about Safepost and Compliance...

Patient Safety

Improvements in patient safety are easier to make when you have all the data you need. Read more about Safepost and Patient Safety...

Risk Management

Keeping track of product recalls, patient-visitor relations, and comprehensive event report data has never been easier. Read more about Safepost and Risk Management...

Notifiable Diseases

Submit your notifiable diseases and map outbreaks in your area (and globally). Safepost has the reporting tools you need to pass notifiable disease outbreaks onto the CDC and state departments of health. Read more about Safepost and Notifiable Diseases...

Product Recalls & Safety Alerts

When a medical product recall or safety alert is submitted by the FDA, JCAHO or other sources, Safepost will route these notices to your organization.From the system, you will be able to route the alert to the proper group and track the notification all the way through to finalization. Read more about Safepost and Product Recalls and Safety Alerts...

Systems Integration

Whether you are a small community hospital, a private practice or a large healthcare system, Safepost can be integrated with your current webservices ready systems. From LDAP integration for single sign-on to CCOW integration with clinical data systems, we're committed to assisting you integrate as much as you possibly can into and out of Safepost. Read more about Safepost and Systems Integration...