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Human Performance Technology Group sets the bar for patient safety within the medical community as a Department of Health and Human Services listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO).
HPTG has successfully made quality improvement and patient safety its mission by delivering a proactive model that instills a culture of communication and learning to healthcare system.
As a primary PSO, HPTG encourages all participants in the healthcare system to collaborate and perpetuate a continual process for improvement and better outcomes.
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- Six months from today, more Americans will be dead from patient-related incidents than were lost in the Vietnam War.
The culture of providing healthcare which expects perfection, has perpetuated itself into an extremely dangerous system of creating Human Errors.
That unfairly places the burden of effective medical treatment on the shoulders of Doctors, the exposure to liability is enormous.
Yet, in most medical school curriculums situational awareness, problem solving, effective communication, and teamwork are not taught.
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Patient Safety News Archive
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) picks HPTG as the first 10 patient safety organizations created to improve patient safety.
Tracking Computer Based Error Reports Improve Patient Safety - Hopkins Study Finds
Read more here.
Congress Passes Patient Safety Legislation
The President signed into law Patient Safety Legislation that was passed by both houses of Congress. This law encourages health care providers to report medical errors to newly-created Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) without fear of civil and criminal litigation.
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