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Significant Threats to Patient Safety from Healthcare Provider Overload and Burnout Must be Addressed

Press Release | High Reliability Organization Council (HROC), Sepsis Alliance | February 10, 2017

Sepsis Alliance and the High Reliability Organization Council (HROC), two leading national advocates for patient safety, are raising the alarm on shortages in healthcare personnel, and the increase in data overload and medical provider burnout that is putting more and more patients at risk. Examples include long wait times to get appointments (which affects access to care), misdiagnoses that delay care, wrong-site surgeries, and other safety failures...

White House Safety Datapalooza Showcases Tools That Make A Difference

John Porcari, Todd Park | Fastlane.gov | September 19, 2012

In May, DOT partnered with the Obama Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to launch the Safety Data Initiative. The result, safety.data.gov, is an effort to release freely available government data to build products, services, and apps that advance public safety in creative and powerful ways. Read More »