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Learn about the evolution of approaches to the response to patient harm that is rooted in a non-punitive, fair yet accountable Culture

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."

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.

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.

Healthcare organisations work hard to ensure that patient safety is a strategic imperative, but significant patient safety improvements have been difficult to achieve.

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.

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...

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?'...

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.

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.

There likely isn’t a hospital in the world that hasn’t made patient safety a strategic imperative.

When patient safety problems occur, almost always it is the systems, procedures, conditions, environment and constraints staff face that are the main contributory factors.

In all areas of life, data is a powerful tool that helps us make decisions about choices we make and where changes are needed.

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.

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.

There are still many healthcare organisations relying on manual systems and processes to detect and prevent medical errors.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

To help you with your COVID-19 efforts, we have created a complimentary COVID-19 Policy Library.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how configure key fields within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixCloudIQ system.

This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create a new form, section and add fields within the DatixCloudIQ system.

This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create an extra field within the DatixCloudIQ system.

This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to create a distribution list within the DatixCloudIQ system.

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.

This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how to configure key fields within the Safety Alerts module in the DatixWeb system.

This video will demonstrate a high-level overview of how-to create an extra field within the DatixWeb system.

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.

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.

In a world of ever-increasing complexity, too often the tools we use only further complicate our working lives.

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.

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?

We identified where you’re hurting most and recommend the best prescription to manage the pain.

Yesterday, Patient Safety Learning was launched at an event in London. With almost 100 attendees spanning all areas across the healthcare sector...

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.

Despite countless advancements made over decades of technological and medical innovation, healthcare providers continue to grapple with some core issues

One of the most essential aspects of a healthcare organisation is the way in which its caregivers communicate with their patients.

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'

Over the past decade, healthcare has taken many notes from the aviation industry, including the importance of checklists, cyclical processing, evaluation of safety events

In 2012, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a little-known report...

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

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.

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

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?

Learn about the evolution of approaches to the response to patient harm that is rooted in a non-punitive, fair yet accountable Culture.

Using Tags and Pinned Queries in the RLDatix system are two features that can save you valuable time.

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.

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?

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.

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.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, it is increasingly important for healthcare organisations to adopt tools and programs to promote infection control.

From patient discharge procedures to staff hygiene requirements, policies and procedures are comprehensive guidelines that communicate important information to staff across a healthcare organisation.

Writing effective healthcare policies and procedures requires a great deal of time, effort and attention to detail which involves a multi-step process of writing, reviewing and approving.

Learn the benefits of introducing a just culture not a blame culture and methodology for positive change within your healthcare organisation.