The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Microsoft have announced plans to work together to take Project Emerge, a technology solution aimed at eliminating preventable harms, to the next level. The two organizations plan to expand on the technology, currently funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, developing a health IT solution that collects data from different monitoring equipment and identifies key trends aimed at preventing harms. Johns Hopkins Medicine and Microsoft are working together to spread the technology more broadly. It has been a goal of the Moore Foundation since the early stages in funding Project Emerge to see it scale and be implemented in hospitals across the country.
More than 400,000 people in the U.S. suffer every day from preventable medical harms, such as delirium and infections, making them the third-leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Emerge, which stems from Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality's research on checklists, is a technology created to restructure the workflow of an ICU in an effort to eliminate the most common causes of preventable harm. The project was piloted at Johns Hopkins Medicine and is being replicated, with Moore Foundation funding, at the University of California, San Francisco.
As part of its commitment to improve the experience and outcomes of patient care, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s patient care program is working with The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center to address preventable harms, including emotional harms too often experienced by patients and their families, by redesigning how care is delivered, beginning in the ICU. The ultimate goal is to see their innovations spread to hospitals nationwide and help make care safer and more compassionate.
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