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Read ArticlePolicy Management Software Vs SharePoint: The Pros and Cons
Using an automated policy management system gives policy administrators the ability to quickly create, revise and distribute new or updated policy content
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Read ArticleCQC Makes Safety & Risk Management Top Priority
With COVID-19 accelerating change in the way that many services are delivered within the healthcare system, the CQC is looking to update the way it works.
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Read ArticleManaging Change in Healthcare through Servant Leadership
Caring for others is a key ethical and professional value of good healthcare and a basic tenet for servant leadership. Learn three key ways to adopt a servant leader approach at your organisation.
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Read ArticleWhen Words and Actions Matter Most: Responding to Harm with the RLDatix Compassionate Approach
Learn about the evolution of approaches to the response to patient harm that is rooted in a non-punitive, fair yet accountable Culture
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Read Article4 Key Takeaways from Beaumont Health’s Journey to Effective Policy Management
Check out four key takeaways from Beaumont Health's Virtual Connections 2020 - North American Edition presentation, "Journeying to Effective Policy Management with RLDatix's PolicyStat Platform."
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Read ArticleManaging cultural change in a crisis
Amid COVID-19, healthcare organisations’ journey towards a new and enlightened workplace should be top of mind. Read six strategies to help you get started.
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Read ArticleHow can you make sure your mortality review process is as efficient as possible?
Support your patient safety efforts with accurate, timely data that will ultimately improve learning from patient deaths. Integration with a local patient administration system can help.
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Read Article3 Key Components of Cultivating a Safety Culture in Healthcare
Healthcare organisations work hard to ensure that patient safety is a strategic imperative, but significant patient safety improvements have been difficult to achieve.
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Read Article5 Must-Have Incident Management Features in 2020
Staying up to date with how incident management is continuing to evolve will be a key component of promoting a culture of safety across healthcare organisations.
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Read ArticleSupport your patient safety efforts with effective policy management
Issues with policies and procedures are commonly identified as contributing factors to events. In many cases, these important documents are also identified as root causes to events...
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Read ArticleMaximise the potential of your RLDatix system with Success Plans
Are there changes you want to make to your system but just do not have the time? Have you spoken with other users and thought ‘we’d love to have that in our system but we don’t know how?'...
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Read ArticleHow Patient Safety Software Became a Strategic Imperative
Ever since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its landmark 1999 report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” there has been a global focus on improving patient safety.
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Read ArticleImplementing a Patient Safety Reporting System
Since 1999, when the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report, “To Err is Human,” healthcare executives have waged an all-out war on reducing preventable patient harm.
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Read ArticleThe Three Major Components of a Safety Culture
There likely isn’t a hospital in the world that hasn’t made patient safety a strategic imperative.
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Read ArticleBalancing accountability and learning in a patient safety culture
When patient safety problems occur, almost always it is the systems, procedures, conditions, environment and constraints staff face that are the main contributory factors.
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Read ArticleUsing data to improve patient safety and efficiency of care
In all areas of life, data is a powerful tool that helps us make decisions about choices we make and where changes are needed.
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Read ArticlePromoting trust in patient safety investigations and learning processes
A number of high-profile reports* in recent years have pointed to significant problems with the way healthcare organisations and the wider system sometimes respond to complaints and investigate.
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Read ArticleHow to improve incident reporting rates
The core purpose of incident reporting is to learn from what happened in order to make improvements to future healthcare processes and systems and protect patients from harm.
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Read ArticleDoes Your Organisation Really Need Patient Safety Software?
There are still many healthcare organisations relying on manual systems and processes to detect and prevent medical errors.
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Read ArticleThe Impact of Big Data on Patient Safety
The era of paper incident reporting is coming to an end. While healthcare organisations seem to have an affinity for paper, executives are discovering that paper forms are notoriously ineffective for
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Read ArticleLearning from Avoidable Harm and Death in Healthcare
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that the way in which the NHS investigates and learns from instances of avoidable harm and death is extremely variable and often poor.
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Read ArticleImplementing the national learning from deaths guidance
Around 50% of all deaths occur in hospital and while many of these are inevitable, it is estimated that between three and five percent of deaths in acute hospitals in England could be avoided
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Read ArticleThe Way Forward with Integrated Care Systems: Improve Collaboration and Data Sharing
As all of England transitions to an ICS framework, it's important for organisations to adopt systems and tools that allow providers to identify themes and trends and share areas for improvement.
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Read ArticleCANDOR Comes to Arkansas: A Candid Approach to Care
Learn how Arkansas Children's Hospital has implemented the "Communication and Optimal Resolution" (CANDOR) program to improve care for patients and caregivers in all areas of the organisation.
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Read FlipbookMaking the Problem Human: Journey to Workplace Violence Prevention
Healthcare is one of the most high-risk environments when it comes to workplace violence. Many organizations are working to change that and encourage staff to report their experiences.
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Read ArticleThe Way Forward with Integrated Care Systems: Improve Collaboration and Data Sharing
As all of England transitions to an ICS framework, it's important for organisations to adopt systems and tools that allow providers to identify themes and trends and share areas for improvement.
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Read ArticleAccess the COVID-19 policy library
To help you with your COVID-19 efforts, we have created a complimentary COVID-19 Policy Library.
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Read ArticleHow to Write Consistent Policies and Procedures
Often in healthcare, writing policies and procedures involves a team of people, including stakeholders. The problem is that with so many people and respective opinions involved, things tend to get tri
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Read ArticlePolicy & Procedure Management 101
What exactly is policy and procedure management you ask? Simply put it’s the process of creating, communicating, and maintaining policies and procedures within an organisation.
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Read ArticleSupporting RLDatix Customers on the Frontlines of COVID-19
As COVID-19 continues, we want to highlight steps that our customers are taking across the globe to support COVID-19 patients and what we are currently doing to support these customers at this time.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ Safety Alerts: Checking responses and closing a safety alert
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to check responses and close a safety alert within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ Safety Alerts: Responding to a safety alert
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to respond to a safety alert within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ Safety Alerts: Creating and distributing a safety alert
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how create and distribute a safety alerts within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ Safety Alerts: Configuring key fields
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how configure key fields within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ: Creating a new form, section and adding fields
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create a new form, section and add fields within the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ: Creating an extra field
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create an extra field within the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixCloudIQ: Creating a distribution list
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create a distribution list within the DatixCloudIQ system.
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Read ArticleDatixWeb: Creating a new form and adding fields
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how-to create a new form, section, add fields and how to create field and section actions within the DatixWeb system.
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Read ArticleDatixWeb Safety Alerts: Configuring key fields
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to configure key fields within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixWeb system.
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Read ArticleDatixWeb: Creating a new field
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how-to create an extra field within the DatixWeb system.
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Read ArticleDatixWeb Safety Alerts: Creating and distributing a safety alert
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create and distribute a safety alert within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixWeb system.
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Read ArticleDatixWeb: Creating a distribution list
This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how-to create a distribution list within the DatixWeb system which can be used, for example with the Safety Alerts module.
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Read ArticleSecuring Patient Safety with Connected Systems
In a world of ever-increasing complexity, too often the tools we use only further complicate our working lives.
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Read ArticleSupporting Patient Safety Legislation in Ireland
On 5th December 2019, The Minister for Health in Ireland published a new patient safety bill that will regulate many important measures related to safety initiatives.
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Read ArticleUsing a Golden Thread to Mitigate Patient Safety Challenges
Under increasing pressure to ensure that safety practices are the best they can be, how can DCIQ transform the way your organisation operates and delivers the highest quality care?
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Read ArticlePatient Safety Challenges for Healthcare Organisations
We identified where you’re hurting most and recommend the best prescription to manage the pain.
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Read ArticleWhose Job is Risk Management?
Risk in healthcare is a shared responsibility, from a patient's bedside to a seat at the boardroom table. So why do we associate the responsibility of risk primarily with the risk management departmen
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Read ArticleDPSIMS Project and RLDatix
RLDatix are working closely with NHS Improvement throughout the project.
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Read ArticlePatient Safety Learning: The Launch
Yesterday, Patient Safety Learning was launched at an event in London. With almost 100 attendees spanning all areas across the healthcare sector...
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Read ArticleWhat to look for in patient safety software
First, we are presuming your organisation needs patient safety software. If this is a lingering question for your executive team, then let’s address that first.
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Read ArticleHow to improve patient experience and patient safety
Despite countless advancements made over decades of technological and medical innovation, healthcare providers continue to grapple with some core issues
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Read ArticleModernising patient outreach through web-based forms
One of the most essential aspects of a healthcare organisation is the way in which its caregivers communicate with their patients.
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Read ArticlePatient Safety Learning
In recent months, I’ve been working with colleagues to set up a new patient safety organisation.
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Read ArticleRLDatix Patient Safety Conference 2018
On the 13th November we held the bi-annual RLDatix Patient Safety Conference at the iconic Royal College of Physicians. The theme of the conference was ‘Data into actions and insights'
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Read ArticleAn important lesson from the aviation industry
Over the past decade, healthcare has taken many notes from the aviation industry, including the importance of checklists, cyclical processing, evaluation of safety events
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Read ArticleThe problems with incident reporting
In 2012, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a little-known report...
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Read ArticleThe power of DatixCloudIQ
As healthcare organisations continue to grow and expand their services, so does the probability that medical errors and patient safety events might occur.
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Read ArticleSecure reporting of patient data over mobile devices
With the increasing amount of mobile technology being deployed into the UK workforce in a bid to make processes and people operate as effectively and efficiently as possible
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Read ArticleCloud Technology: are you ready?
To many, the term “Cloud technology” means so much, but also so little. Read more to determine if your healthcare software is ready for the cloud.
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Read ArticleDeveloping Fluency with a Common Classification System
While the basic tenants of all healthcare providers are more or less the same (that is, to improve and maintain the health, safety, and satisfaction of the patients they treat), the scope and severity
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Read FlipbookThe Impact of Patient Safety on Medical Costs
Ensure your organisation provides quality patient care and avoid unnecessary financial losses. Check out our white paper with crucial insights by Adam E. Block, a leading healthcare economist.
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Read ArticleGetting Buy-In for Your Quality Initiatives and Building a Strong Team
You have a great new patient safety and quality initiative you’d like to start at your organization – one you think could benefit many. What do you need to get started?
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Read ArticleUpdate on the PSIMS Project
In the final edition of On the Pulse in 2020 we are bringing you an update on the PSIMS Project and compatibility with RLDatix.
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Read ArticleDay 4: The Gift of Shared Knowledge
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Read ArticleWhen Words and Actions Matter Most: Responding to Harm with the RLDatix Compassionate Approach
Learn about the evolution of approaches to the response to patient harm that is rooted in a non-punitive, fair yet accountable Culture.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix HUB
Join the global community of patient safety experts.
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Read ArticleUsing Tags and Pinned Queries in the RLDatix system
Using Tags and Pinned Queries in the RLDatix system are two features that can save you valuable time.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Safety Learnings
Create a pro-active and engaged learning culture across all areas of healthcare.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Business Intelligence Demo Session Q&A
Read the Business Intelligence Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Dashboards Demo Session Q&A
Read the Dashboards Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Enterprise Risk Manager Demo Session Q&A
Read the Enterprise Risk Manager Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Mortality Review Demo Session Q&A
Read the Mortality Review Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix PolicyStat Demo Session Q&A
Read the PolicyStat Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Safety Alerts Demo Session Q&A
Read the Safety Alerts Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read FlipbookRLDatix Safety Learnings Demo Session Q&A
Read the Safety Learnings Q&A document from the Demo Series.
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Read ArticleCaring for Caregivers Has Never Been as Important
The Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) toolkit has the potential to change a hospital's culture. Learn how it can help you improve patient safety, provide support to caregivers and more.
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Read ArticleIreland's Patient Safety Strategy Commitments
Why is it so important to have the right systems in place to help you meet and excel in the six commitments to patient safety in Ireland?
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Read ArticleThe link between data visualisation and patient safety
When you can visualise data in an easy to digest form, you’re better prepared to understand themes, trends and identify key areas for improvement within your healthcare organisation.
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Read FlipbookPromoting organisational unity with effective policy management
Greater Baltimore Medical Center needed a policy management solution that fitted their unique needs, meeting each individual department's individual requirements, whilst promoting unity.
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Read ArticlePolicy and Procedure Management 101
A typical healthcare organisation has numerous policies on a variety of topics related to patient care, so having an effective policy and procedure management system in place is critical.
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Read Article10 must-have infection control policies
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, it is increasingly important for healthcare organisations to adopt tools and programs to promote infection control.
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Read ArticleTop 5 types of hospital policies & procedures
From patient discharge procedures to staff hygiene requirements, policies and procedures are comprehensive guidelines that communicate important information to staff across a healthcare organisation.
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