Reducing medical errors will require better reporting tools, engaged patients and – you guessed it – culture change

MedCityNews.com  September 27, 2013 8:30 am by Deanna  Pogorelc  –  “Culture change.” Those words just keep coming up again and again in talk  about what’s needed to reduce  healthcare costs, to  make better use of health information technology, and in this case to stop  preventable medical errors that harm patients.  Patient Safety America founder  John James recently published  a study in the Journal of Patient Safety that estimated the annual number of  medical errors in U.S. at up to four times the number the Institute  of Medicine estimated in 1999. He joined other experts representing vendors,  providers and pharmacists on Thursday for a TEDMED Great Challenges Google+  hangout focused on eliminating medial errors.  Read more