Upcoming Events

TMF provides informational events to help home health agencies in their quality improvement activities. Many include free CME and CNE.

Quality Basics for Providers

“Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis: Learning From Unexpected Events”

September 16, 2008
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST

Presenters:
Michael P. Silver, MPH, director, Scientific Affairs and Patient Safety, HealthInsight
Sharon Eloranta, MD, medical director, Quality and Safety Initiatives, Qualis Health

Unexpected and unwanted outcomes, accidents and injury are the products of flawed system design. The challenge in incident investigation and root cause analysis (RCA) is design challenge: indentify systems design features that cause accidents and then develop effective re-design strategies.

This webinar describes how RCA drives comprehensive safety management strategies and the importance of learning from “near miss” events. It will review barriers and risks to effective RCA that are specific to health care, including system and process complexity. This presentation will provide related training resources to help health care staff implement effective programs of incident investigation and RCA in their organizations.

This event is sponsored by the Performance Improvement QIOSC. Registration is free and open until September 16. To register, go to the PI QIOSC Web site.

A recorded version of this event will be posted on MedQIC.

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