According to the ONC, hospitals struggle to increase internal incident reporting, especially by busy physicians and nurses, and to create effective systems for the quality and risk management staff to do root cause analyses and follow-up.
The “Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge” calls on multi-disciplinary teams to develop an application that facilitates the reporting of patient safety events in hospital or ambulatory settings. The requirements include making it easier for any individual to file a report electronically using AHRQ’s Common Formats with room for additional elements and notes. The app must also allow the hospital quality and risk management staff to add information from follow-up investigation; submit reports as appropriate to patient safety organizations, the state or the FDA; and track follow-up activities.
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