Objectives

1. Bird’s eye view on Medical Errors
2. Prevalence of medical errors in United States and in State of Florida
3. Efforts to reduce medical errors at national and state level
4. Incentives for healthcare providers and facilities to reduce medical errors
5. Florida’s effort to reduce and prevent medical errors and improve patient safety
6. Types of medical errors
7. Identify populations of special vulnerability to medical errors.
8. Factors that increases risk of medical errors
9. Prevention of medical errors in special needs population
10. Most Highly Rated Patient Safety Practices
11. Public Awareness and Education
12. Describe strategies and interventions to prevent medical errors.
13. Recommends on reducing or eliminating medical errors
14. Discuss Florida’s medical error reporting requirements.
15. Improving patient safety through prompt reporting of errors: Identify responsibilities of healthcare providers for prompt reporting of medical errors JACHO’s Patient Safety Goals
16. Root Cause Analysis: To identify changes that could be made to systems and processes to improve performance and reduce risk of recurrence of the adverse events
17. Role of electronic medical records (EMRs) and other information technology to improve Communication and patient safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities
18. Public education and awareness measures related to patient safety