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Relational community engagement - webinar
Community PostHi Jules .. .do you know if the webinar will be recorded. Kinda early for some of us folks in the western US. 😉
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Patient Safety Network abruptly cut by Trump administration (29 March 2025)
Content Article CommentThanks so much to Patient Safety Learning for sharing this frustrating news with the broader patient safety community. As PSNet's long-term content curator--since site launch 20 years ago--I appreciate learning from our community the value the site has brought to the field.
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'The PSIRF Hollywood collaborative': a blog from Jane Carthey, Tracey Herlihey, Claire Cox, Maureen Bankole-Allibay and Helen Hughes
Content Article Commentlzipperer commented on Patient Safety Learning's article in Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)very fun...reminds me of a few of the Letters from America 😉
- Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety: A blog by Helen Hughes
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Alcoholism and American healthcare: The case for a patient safety approach (2 August 2022)
Content Article Commentthanks to the hub for including our article here. I'd love to hear from clinicians as to the usefulness of the concepts we shared.
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AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet): Submit a patient safety case
Content Article Commenthere are some examples of PSnet materials generated from case submissions: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm-case-studies
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Welcome - AI - The challenge of adopting safe solutions
Community PostI think its important to consider how biases (research, implicit etc) can affect the success of AI. both in the results and how it is interpreted.
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Letter from America. Technology PDQ: potentials, dilemmas and questions
Content ArticleIn this month's Letter from America, Lorri Zipperer discusses cautions and capabilities associated with healthcare technologies. Letter from America is a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting new accomplishments and patient safety challenges in the United States. This is Lorri's last blog in the series and we'd like to thank Lorri for sharing her insights with us over the last 12 months. Read here all the Letter from America blogs
- Letter from America. Technology PDQ: potentials, dilemmas and questions
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The optimal use of telehealth to deliver safe patient care (6 October 2020)
Content ArticleThis publication from the US-based Joint Commission shares recommendations for organizations to guide effective provision of telehealth services. The alert discusses insights to establish secure and reliable telehealth systems and programs. It highlights creating standards for virtual care delivery, training staff to understand virtual patient monitoring, outlining specific clinician roles, and targeting tasks needed to as tactics to ensure virtual care is complete.
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Alexa, do I have COVID-19? (30 September 2020)
Content ArticleThis article in Nature explores how voice activation technologies have potential to diagnose coronavirus infections, dementia and depression. Emily Anthes discusses efforts around the globe to reach the highly anticipated potential of this technology in healthcare.
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Cyberattacks in health care can threaten patient safety.
Content ArticleLarge-scale organisational disruptions threaten patient safety. This essay from Lisa Croke in the AORN Journal shares privacy, physical space operation and medical device function concerns that could result from cyberattacks.
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Beyond Dr. Google: the evidence on consumer-facing digital tools for diagnosis (25 September 2020)
Content ArticleConsumer-focused digital healthcare apps are widely used for health maintenance. This scoping review from Millenson et al. examined evidence on interactive direct-to-consumer diagnostic applications and found a lack of robustness on evaluation methods.
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The rise of telehealth (2 September 2020)
Content ArticleTelehealth has become more entrenched as a healthcare provision mechanism in response to COVID-19. This Dissent Magazine article cautions its effectiveness long term due to its potential to be established as a profit centre for healthcare organisations.
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Access to telemedicine is hardest for those who need it most (3 September 2020)
Content ArticleTelemedicine has potential to address inequity in healthcare but not until certain barriers are addressed. This article from Joanna Pearlstein in Wired discusses how physicians and care organisations have to be creative and rely on partnerships and local resources, such as school district hot spots or public library broadband access, to make the system reliably work for all their patients.