The patient care program’s ICU grantees – a consortium comprised of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine and UCSF Medical Center – presented for the second time this year at an important industry conference held last week in Boston. The conference, iHealth, was coordinated by the American Medical Informatics Association, the leading professional society for informaticians who rely on data to connect people, information, and technology.
More than 100 people attended the grantees’ session titled: “Innovations Designed to Increase Patient Safety and Dignity and Respect.” The four academic medical centers shared experiences in rapidly developing innovations designed to provide safer, more compassionate care and how these are integrated within the culture and workflow of their hospitals and clinical care teams. Each center is taking a systems approach, leveraging technology, people and processes to eliminate preventable harms, including how patients and families are treated in the care they receive. A unique focus for the consortium and its work is treating patients and their family members in a respectful and dignified manner.
During the one-hour panel presentation each center highlighted its innovations, ranging from technology designed to alert providers to potential harms before they occur to those that better enable communication and collaboration among patients, families and clinical care teams, such as iPads for hospitalized patients and their loved ones. The same four centers will present again in July at the American Hospital Association’s Leadership Summit.
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