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  2. Crossing the Quality Chasm - Wikipedia

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    Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century is a report on health care quality in the United States published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on March 1, 2001. A follow-up to the frequently cited 1999 IOM patient safety report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System , Crossing the Quality Chasm advocates for ...

  3. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    The follow-up IOM report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, advised rapid adoption of electronic patient records, electronic medication ordering, with computer- and internet-based information systems to support clinical decisions. [86] This section contains only the patient safety related aspects of HIT.

  4. To Err Is Human (report) - Wikipedia

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    The report had a huge impact on management of health care. As a result of the report President Bill Clinton signed Senate bill 580, the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999, which renamed The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to indicate a change in focus. The bill also funded ...

  5. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act - Wikipedia

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    Patient safety work product includes any data, reports, records, memoranda, analyses (such as root cause analyses), or written or oral statements (or copies of any of this material), which are assembled or developed by a provider for reporting to a PSO and are reported to a PSO; or are developed by a patient safety organization for the conduct ...

  6. Trauma Quality Improvement Program - Wikipedia

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    Institutional variations can be attributed to differences in both patient population and quality of care at each institution. [1] The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System emphasized the importance of recognizing variability and inefficiencies in the United States healthcare system.

  7. Don E. Detmer - Wikipedia

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    Detmer chaired the 1991 study, The Computer-based Patient Record. [1] He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, To Err is Human [2] and Crossing the Quality Chasm. [3] From 1999 to 2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College ...

  8. Patient safety organization - Wikipedia

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    A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors.Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy.

  9. National Academy of Medicine - Wikipedia

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    The institute was founded in 1970, under the congressional charter of the National Academy of Sciences as the Institute of Medicine. [2]On April 28, 2015, NAS membership voted in favor of reconstituting the membership of the IOM as a new National Academy of Medicine and establishing a new division on health and medicine within the NRC that has the program activities of the IOM at its core.