The SafeCare Safety Management Program includes the following three basic components that combine to reduce errors, improve operational efficiency, and provide measurable and quantified results.
Baseline Assessment and Safety Education (BASE)
The SafeCare Systems Group performs a baseline assessment – a review and evaluation of your organization’s methods, data, financial position, and culture relative to patient safety. In order to help prepare your organization for culture change, our staff presents programs for clinicians, administrators, and support staff about the impact of safety practices on productivity and patient outcomes.
Safety Management Information System (SIS)
Our unique system allows organizations to capture, aggregate, and analyze adverse event data that reveals trends, patterns, systemic causes, and associated waste. It is also used to perform prospective analysis of operations, measure the impact of performance improvement initiatives, and track the return-on-investment. The system features uniform coding and is easy to use: entering an adverse medical event takes about two minutes.
National Comparative Database
What are other hospitals doing to achieve success? Our National Comparative Database of more than 750,000 noteworthy medical events is a useful tool that lets you compare your organization to others and benefit from proven best practices. Our unique coding allows an “apples-to-apples" comparison of medical error experience across organizations, facilities, services, and locations.
Designed specifically to meet the needs of healthcare, the SafeCare Safety Information System lets you capture, manage, and analyze medical events, from medical errors to unsafe conditions and high-risk related processes across the healthcare enterprise. Unique event management functions support interdepartmental workflow and communication along the safety management continuum.
SafeCare modular design allows an organization to focus its prevention strategies on various injury-inducing events as well as error prone processes. Once improvement opportunities are identified and quantified, the system helps you measure the effectiveness and ROI of error reduction strategies.
Medical Event Taxonomy
- Extensive, field tested classification of medical events and associated descriptors including medical errors, adverse events, incidents, quality indicators, complaints, and high-risk process failures.
- Foundation for evidence-based, data-driven programs focus on what broke down, why, and how to best fix it.
- Uniform reporting and effective analysis.
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- Dynamic, easy-to-use screens result in fast, accurate, and rich data capture.
- Comprehensive reporting of patient, staff, visitor, and environmental events.
- Integrated ancillary system eliminates redundant data entry and enhances depth of data analysis.
- Workflow management functions support seamless adherence to an organization's policies and procedures.
- Assessments and follow-up activities made easier with automated notification features, online work lists, and approval functions.
- Anonymous and de-identification capabilities support a no fear/no fault approach, resulting in increased reporting and proactive prevention.
- An electronic catalogue of reference material, including collections of best practices, policies, and process improvement projects, link to the SIS for relevant information retrieval.
- System generated notifications, emails, and lists flag conditions that require attention and promote proactive safety management.
- Safety Information System email integrates with facility email systems.
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- Integrated with the Event Management Module, it supports risk assessments of medical events as well as the capture of relevant claims data.
- Failure mode and effect analysis projects support reviews identifying prevention strategies for error prone processes, unsafe conditions, and device failures.
- Dashboards aggregate event data and correlate it with related values such as patient demographics, staffing levels, and situational factors to identify trends.
- Drill-down to identify patterns that reflect the most prevalent injury-inducing events or error prone processes.
- Evaluate the opportunity costs of events and impact on length of stay.
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Contact Us
The SafeCare Systems Group at Apptis offers data driven solutions to improve patient care and safety while minimizing risk. This tested Safety Management Program provides a powerful approach to patient safety by aligning an organizations financial, clinical, and cultural initiatives. It lets your organization bridge the gap between everyday care and SafeCare.
For more information, please contact us at 888.APPTIS.8 or via e-mail at safecare@apptis.com.
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