To many people, hospitals are considered safe havens where they go to get well - not a place where they could suffer a preventable harm event resulting in greater sickness, or worse, death.

Healthcare organizations need to establish a common safety system framework to become high reliability organizations, according to a perspective piece in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and ...

Common platforms, infrastructure standards and unified support are three critically important elements that set the foundation to achieve and maintain operational efficiency, environment stability and ...

In the early morning hours of a typical Tuesday, Sarah Mitchell, MD, an experienced radiologist, sat in the dim light of her reading room, scrutinizing a series of lung scans on her computer screen.

The consequences of failure in healthcare can be dire. Providing health care has gravity, driving many healthcare organizations to strive to become a High-Reliability Organization, or HRO. HROs are ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizient, Inc. today announced a strategic agreement with Safe & Reliable Healthcare to offer an integrated solution designed to partner with Vizient members on their ...

The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has launched a new online assessment and resource library to help hospital executives track their organization's progress on reliability and ...