Blog about patient safety
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The importance of incident reporting in nursing
Work accidents and incidents happen in every industry, including nursing. This article shows how reporting can help increase patient safety.
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How to write an incident report
When should an incident report be completed and how should the report be written? In this article we’ll show you our best practices.
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Servicedesk Engineer Mitch Dobbe | TPSC
Curious about the work of The Patient Safety Company's servicedesk? Read our interview with Servicedesk Engineer Mitch Dobbe!
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Security Officer Pardi Scheffer | TPSC
Curious about the work of The Patient Safety Company's servicedesk? Read our interview with Senior Servicedesk Engineer Pardi Scheffer!
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Bytes Without Borders: Audits, but different
Make healthcare audits easier with our application, like GGZ Drenthe did! Want to know more? Find out about it in our blog!
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Our consultant Vayip Ozturk | TPSC
Curious about the work of The Patient Safety Company consultants? Read an interview with Vayip Ozturk here.
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Our Consultant John Willems | TPSC
Curious about the work of The Patient Safety Company consultants? Read an interview with John Willems here.
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The SIRE Method: A Specialized Version of Root Cause Analysis
Want to know more about the SIRE (Systematic Incident Reconstruction and Evaluation) method? Read all about this analysis method in this TPSC blog.
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The PRISMA Incident Analysis Method: Improving Patient Safety
Want to know more about the PRISMA Incident Analysis Method and how it is integrated in TPSC Cloud™? Read our blog and improve your patient safety!
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How staffing shortages affect patient safety in healthcare and nursing
Organizations are short-staffed and workers feel stretched thin. But, patient safety goals are unchanged and must continue to be met. Learn more.
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14 Tips for developing the best incident reporting form
Learn how to develop staff-friendly healthcare incident reporting forms, by applying the 14 tips in this blog. Or try our live demo incident reporting form
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5 Healthcare incident reporting applications
Different types of healthcare incidents require specific applications to register the data. Learn about our 5 applications, all on the same platform.
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Developing healthcare benchmarks with incident data
Tracking incident data and then benchmarking that data against comparable peer groups can help organizations to improve safety for patients and staff.
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3 Data security strategies on healthcare's cloud platforms
Healthcare organizations need to ramp up the cybersecurity of their cloud platforms by adopting various strategies. In this blog we highlight three of them
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Why is incident reporting important for healthcare organizations?
Why is it important to report healthcare incidents? This blog shows the benefits for staff members, management and organizations in general.
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Benefits of cloud software in healthcare
Every sized healthcare facility can reduce costs, enhance privacy, and foster patient safety initiatives by leveraging cloud software (SaaS) technologies
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How patient safety software should work with other healthcare IT
Patient safety is a goal that can be aided by using the right software. Start by ensuring that it works well with other healthcare IT applications in use.
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How safety software helps with infection control
Infection incidents are better managed using patient safety software. Learn how our software can supports hospitals with infection control.
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How value-based healthcare affects patient safety and satisfaction
Value-based healthcare incentivizes providers to focus on improving patient outcomes, which includes patient safety and patient satisfaction.
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Accountability in healthcare when adverse events occur
Why do some healthcare managers seem to ignore adverse events and near-misses? How can technology help ensure accountability in our healthcare systems?
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Why it is important to follow up on patient complaints
Receiving patient complaints can often be intimidating. But feedback can be valuable. This blog explains why a good follow-up is important.
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How technology supports safety rounds
Healthcare teams perform safety rounds to minimize risks. Safety round checklists are a critical part of it, they help staff to focus on what matters most.
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Software helps with quality and safety accreditation in healthcare
To receive accreditation, hospitals must undergo a review by an independent organization. Learn more how software can help with the accreditation process
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Developing standards for hospital-wide patient safety
Developing standards is crucial to increase patient safety in your healthcare organization. Learn more about the different standards in this blogpost
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The financial impact of patient safety errors in healthcare
Patient safety errors don’t just harm patients — they harm healthcare organizations from a financial standpoint, too. Read our blog on how to act.
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The impact of Continuum of Care on patient safety
Learn more about the impact of Continuum of Care on patient safety. And how the teach-back technique helps improving communication with patients and family
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What type of incidents take place in healthcare
A healthcare incident is an unintended or unexpected event that harmed a patient or caregiver. Learn more about the type of incidents that take place
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How to keep patients safe while offering telehealth
Is your organization offering telehealth more and more? Make sure incident reporting and patient feedback are part of the process. Read more in this blog
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Barriers to incident reporting in healthcare
Regularly assess possible barriers to reporting incidents in your healthcare organization. We explain 8 reasons that keep your staff from reporting
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Focus on the process to achieve structural quality improvement
Incidents provide an indication of which processes have priority to improve. Use a prospective risk inventory (PRI) to identify the weak links in a process
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Tips for motivating employees to help improve the quality of care
Check this blog if you question yourself “How do I get employees motivated to report incidents and participate in improving healthcare?”
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Five benefits of deploying employee satisfaction surveys in healthcare
An employee satisfaction survey provides insights into your staff’s engagement and satisfaction. Read these 5 benefits for surveys in healthcare
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How to set up an employee satisfaction survey
What’s the best way to construct and execute employee satisfaction surveys in healthcare? We’ll walk you through the details and options available.
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Start preparing healthcare for the next COVID-19 outbreak
Help your healthcare organization to be better prepared for the next COVID-19 outbreak. Our checklist has more than 30 points to discuss for improvements
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The manager's role for quality improvement in healthcare
Managers have an important role in the implementation of quality management in healthcare. Our blog outlines important aspects to keep in mind.
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The role of the quality manager in quality improvement
Quality managers play an important role in the design and implementation of quality improvements. This blog talks about what is important in this position
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Four questions about using FRAM analysis within Safety-II
The FRAM analysis fits in well with the new safety II thinking within healthcare. With FRAM you analyze 'work as done'. Read more in this blog.
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The Safety-II approach: Learning from what goes right
Safety II starts with what goes right in healthcare. Our blog shows how Safety II offers new insights in addition to the usual incident analysis.
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How to support healthcare staff’s wellbeing in corona crisis
How to ensure that healthcare professionals survive under the enormous emotional COVID-19 pressure? Our Peer Support application offers a solution.
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10 tips for patient safety amidst the corona outbreak
Here are 10 patient safety tips for hospitals amidst the COVID-19 including hygiene protocols, a safety culture, etc. Read more here.
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How to start continuous quality improvement in healthcare?
To work continuously on quality improvement, it is important to see quality as an integral part of business operations. Learn more in this blog
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What to expect from a digital quality management system?
Technological developments are going fast. This blog describes what to expect from a modern digital quality management system in the healthcare sector
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The main criteria for selecting a quality management system
Many vendors offer quality management software. Learn about the main criteria for selecting a system that fits your healthcare IT landscape.
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What to include in RFI for Quality Management System? Part 2
A complete Request for Information is essential when acquiring a quality management system. Read which components are generally included in an RFI (part 2)
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What to include in RFI for Quality Management System? Part 1
A Request for Information is essential when acquiring a quality management system. Read which functional requirements are generally included in an RFI
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Request for Information tips for a Quality Management System
Good preparation makes all the difference when drawing up a Request for Information for a Quality Management System! This blog describes where to start
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How to make patient/client participation a success?
How do you make sure that your organization learns from patient participation initiatives? This blog describes important factors for success
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How to implement a Quality Management System in healthcare?
Implementing quality management software means a new way of working. This may hamper acceptance. Read which steps will contribute to a successful start
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How to choose the right tool for patient/client participation?
There are numerous ways to involve patients and their relatives in improving the quality and safety of care. How do you select the most appropriate tool?
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Roles involved when implementing a Quality Management System
Which professionals and roles will be affected by acquiring a Digital Quality Management System? This blog describes the key positions in your project team
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How to select participants for patient participation?
Patient participation contributes to the quality and safety of care. This blog offers tips about how to select the right patients/clients for participation
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Why (and when) do you need a digital Quality Management System?
Are you looking for a Digital Quality Management System? This blog describes important questions for an organization to answer, before looking for a vendor
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Participation: How to give patients/clients a voice?
This blog describes various tools that you apply to give patients and clients a voice with the aim of improving the quality of care.
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Key objectives for implementing a Quality Management System
When purchasing a quality management system, it is important to know why you need it. This blog describes the key objectives for implementation.
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The role of clients and their relatives in improving healthcare
By actively listening to experiences of patients/clients and their relatives, the quality and safety of care can be substantially improved, without requiring major change processes. However, an open...
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Digital Quality Management System, a nice-to-have or necessity?
Quality Management System, a nice-to-have or necessity? To answer this question you first need to make clear what is meant by a quality management system, what is its function and what are the...
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Connection between informed consent and patient participation?
This blog describes the essence of patient participation and shows you that informed consent is an important form of patient participation
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To be and remain a good care professional
Learn how to reduce the chance of dysfunctional behavior among medical specialists by creating a healthcare safety culture
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Care professionals, the second victim of a medical incident
Read the blog and learn what interventions to apply to prevent second victim inclinations after an incident in healthcare
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Learnings about the aviation sector's safety for healthcare sector
Read the blog and discover what the healthcare sector can learn from the aviation industry about safety and creating a safety culture.
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From blaming & shaming to a learning organisation
Read the blog and learn how to create an open culture that focuses on learning instead of blaming and shaming.
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Safety culture determines patient safety
Climb the safety culture ladder! Read the TPSC blog and learn about the importance of open communication in realising a proactive safety culture.
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Benchmarking between Dutch Caribbean healthcare institutions
Read the blog to see how healthcare organizations and the Dutch Caribbean islands collaborate and benchmark in a Dutch Caribbean Health Information System.
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Automated healthcare processes in the Dutch Caribbean
Read the blog and learn how healthcare facilities improve quality and safety on all levels by automating business and healthcare processes.
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Challenges of Dutch Caribbean healthcare - Case study
Learn about the challenges Dutch Caribbean healthcare facilities are facing around patient safety and quality. They now use our platform to improve
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Make healthcare safer with system-wide incident reporting
Read this blog to learn how transmural incident reporting works and how it contributes to patient safety when organizations work together on patients.
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What to learn from digital incident reporting in healthcare?
Discover the benefits of online incident reporting! Our software is easy to implement and at low costs. Read this blog or ask for a free online demo
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Why don't we learn from healthcare incidents?
Many care organizations don't learn from their incidents. This blog describes the 3 crucial moments at which learning from incidents can go wrong.
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Every mistake is an opportunity to improve healthcare
Systematic incident analysis is needed to improve healthcare. This blog describes the benefits of incident analysis by using the PRISMA methodology.
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Calamity disclosure as a healthcare discussion issue
Read what is needed to learn from incidents and calamities and how incident and calamity disclosure can contribute to healthcare improvement.
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A cost-effective solution for quality management in nursing homes
Do you want to improve quality and safety, but does an online Quality & Risk Management System not fit your budget? We created an innovative solution!
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The pitfalls of quality registrations on paper or spreadsheets
Still reporting on spreadsheets or paper? You'll probably recognize the disadvantages. Discover the benefits of an online Quality & Risk Management System.
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Top 5 quality issues in nursing homes
This blog describes 5 common issues nursing homes have to deal with in order to improve the quality of care, plus a practical solution to these challenges.
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Always Events: Make the Patient the Focus
Read the TPSC blog and learn what Always Events implies, how to recognize it, how to create it and how it compares to a Just Culture.
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The essence of communication in patient safety
Blog about the importance of communication in healthcare. How this contributes to the learning culture of an organization and leads to Just Culture.
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Just Culture: addressing errors in medical care
'Blame-free' errors are almost never a possibility. Learn how to handle human errors in a manner that is in line with a just culture.
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Human error: Retributive culture versus Just Culture
Learn how a retributive culture and a Just Culture handle human error in healthcare. What are the conditions to realize a Just Culture?
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The transformation to online safety reporting
Learn from a well-renowed, Dubai-based quality manager on hear experience with implementing online safety reporting systems.
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