At the core of this report lies a simple fact: If we can’t see harm happening, we can’t prevent it. While healthcare has made remarkable progress in reducing infections, preventing falls and ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

Patient safety challenges are exacerbated by healthcare workforce challenges. However, a workplace culture focused on measuring what goes wrong and making changes to address root causes – powered by ...

One cyberattack can mean the difference between life and death. Every week, another headline exposes the terrifying reality that, in today’s digitally driven healthcare environment, cybersecurity ...

Despite improvement efforts over the past 30 years, patient safety and preventable harm incidents remain significant challenges in the healthcare industry. According to a 2023 study in the New England ...

Ardent Health hellocare partner deploys AI-assisted virtual nursing and patient safety across 2,000 rooms to enhance care and operational efficiency.

Charles Denham, MD, of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, reflects on what healthcare providers can do to intensify efforts toward increasing patient safety. In an article published in Journal ...

AI visualization accelerating smarter healthcare design helps hospitals improve facility planning, stakeholder alignment and patient safety.

Healthcare organizations often focus their patient safety efforts on the inpatient setting, but research shows a significant number of patients experience adverse events in the outpatient setting. The ...

HealthGrades, a provider of healthcare information for consumers, analyzed patient safety data for hospitalizations between 2008 and 2010. Researchers found that better communication among staff ...

Last year, I faced a harrowing experience that would change my perspective on healthcare forever. What began as an emergency surgery to combat a flesh-eating bacteria quickly turned into a nightmare.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Patient safety increasingly depends on decisions made outside the clinical floor. When supplies fail to align with patient flow and rising acuity, care teams ...