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Tag: Patient Safety

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Visualizing our surgical outcomes data blind spot

Aug. 14, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP

In the U.S. health care system, we now have many more surgical procedures being performed in the outpatient setting than even a decade ago. The push to migrate certain procedures […]

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Three questions with Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa: Shining a light on outpatient safety

Aug. 7, 2023 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Angela Haile-Selassie

I sat down with Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa, 3M Health Information Systems global chief medical officer, to talk about how outpatient safety measures could shake up the industry for the better.   […]

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Preventing ambulatory complications

Jan. 20, 2023 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA

As care volume moves to outpatient settings, focus on procedural safety is key. In this episode Sandeep Wadhwa, 3M HIS global chief medical officer, discusses a new methodology created to […]

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Three questions with Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA: Enhanced ambulatory safety and the potential revenue impact

Nov. 2, 2022 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Kelli Christman

I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to discuss the need for improved ambulatory safety protocols and how it could impact […]

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Three questions with Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA: Making ambulatory patients safer

May 4, 2022 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Kelli Christman

I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to discuss his thoughts on increasing ambulatory patient safety protocols. Sandeep, you recently attended […]

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One health system’s approach to the opioid crisis is paying off

July 22, 2019 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

What can health systems do to combat the opioid crisis? This is the kind of question that fascinates me as I think about how we can improve healthcare outcomes through […]

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Leadership for a culture of safety: Closing the performance gap

July 2, 2019 / By Priscilla Knolle, MD

In my last blog titled “Culture of safety: Transformation through employee engagement,” I presented my interview with Anil Mathur, President and CEO of Alaska Tanker Company. Anil shared how a […]

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Culture of safety: Transformation through employee engagement

June 7, 2019 / By Priscilla Knolle, MD

In my last blog titled “Developing a patient safety culture: What can we learn from other industries?”, I discussed the importance of healthcare safety. A culture of safety is essential […]

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Developing a patient safety culture: What can we learn from other industries?

May 17, 2019 / By Priscilla Knolle, MD

The publication of the Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human: Building Safer Health System in 1999 raised awareness of medical errors, increased public concern and called for a […]

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Recent challenges to a culture of patient safety

May 1, 2019 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP

A culture of patient safety built over the past twenty years is encountering roadblocks. Policies and recent events that defy both research and initiatives geared towards strengthening healthcare safety, whether […]

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The importance of humans in health care

Dec. 5, 2018 / By Barbara Aubry, RN

The online portal Dictionary describes healthcare as “noun; the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services”. Interesting that it does not mention […]

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When medicine hurts

Dec. 3, 2018 / By Steve Delaronde

Between 2011 and 2013, 31 out of 38 patients treated by the same neurosurgeon in the Dallas area were left paralyzed, seriously injured or dead. The neurosurgeon became known as […]