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From Close Calls to Safer Systems: Rethinking Near Miss Reporting in Healthcare

To truly drive safety at scale, healthcare organizations will have to look beyond just adverse events and better leverage insights from one of the most valuable, but often underuti...

Sedation Practice in Interventional Radiology: Regulatory and Safety Considerations Beyond Pharmacology

Workplace safety is a top priority for 93% of healthcare leaders: Axon survey

To offset potential disruptions, eight in 10 healthcare leaders favor increasing investments geared toward improving safety and operational efficiency.

Patient safety rules overhaul

The Health Ministry is establishing a National System for Healthcare Quality Governance and Patient Safety.

Why Healthcare’s Safety Strategy Must Be Layered, Data-Driven, and Lead With Trust

Healthcare leaders no longer debate whether workplace violence is a crisis. The data is clear. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare and social service worke...

Why psychological safety in health care systems matters

In health care, we often talk about psychological safety as something leaders create, encouraging people to speak up, be open, and learn from mistakes. But in practice, many clinic...

Why Healthcare’s Safety Strategy Must Be Layered, Data-Driven, and Lead With Trust

Healthcare leaders no longer debate whether workplace violence is a crisis. The data is clear. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare and social service worke...

Q&A: Updates on medication safety, shortages and recalls for 2026

SAN FRANCISCO — At the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Douglas S. Paauw, MD, MACP, offered a presentation on challenges in prescribing.Healio spoke with Paauw, the Rathmann Family F...

Growing Concerns Over Patient Safety Bring Increased Attention to Medical Malpractice Cases Across Georgia

Legal professionals say evolving healthcare systems and rising medical error concerns are making patient advocacy more important than ever

Why Healthcare Safety Is a Data Problem: A Conversation with RLDatix’s August Calhoun

Safety incidents in healthcare cause tremendous patient suffering—and they also create major financial and operational consequences for health systems. The challenge is that most o...

Stronger together for patient safety

The Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety is expanding its advocacy network—and AOA members are crucial to its success.

When Routine Becomes Risk: Medication Safety in Everyday Veterinary Practice

In this VETgirl blog, Sarah Ambrose-Kuhl discusses how routine practices can become risky and the importance of implementing strategies to maintain medication safety in everyday ve...

Staff Had Concerns: What a Surgeon’s Manslaughter Charge Tells Us About Speaking Up

A Florida surgeon, Thomas Shaknovsky, was indicted on a second-degree manslaughter charge on April 13. The charge followed the death of William Bryan, a 70-year-old Alabama man, du...

"Serious" concerns raised about patient safety at hospital after duty of care breach

A health board has admitted it breached its duty of care after an incident involving a physician associate, amid a fresh attack over "serious" patient safety concerns.

Ensuring Medication Safety in Older Adults’ Home Care

As the global population ages, the safety and efficacy of medication management for older adults have become critical public health priorities. A groundbreaking study set to be pub...

'Serious incidents or injuries' risk due to issues in HSE's internal health and safety system

Almost half of acute hospitals don’t have a health and safety officer.

How implicit bias in health care impacts patient safety

Recently, I found myself in a place many physicians know professionally but dread personally: the waiting area outside a procedure room, this time as a mother. My six-year-old unde...

How implicit bias in health care impacts patient safety

Recently, I found myself in a place many physicians know professionally but dread personally: the waiting area outside a procedure room, this time as a mother. My six-year-old unde...

Closing the execution reliability gap in health care systems

Health care has made extraordinary progress in clinical knowledge. Diagnostic capabilities have advanced, treatments have become more precise, and predictive analytics now help cli...

News 4/22/26

Top News Healthcare quality and safety non-profit ECRI spins off ...

AHA urges delay on TEFCA individual access SOP over patient privacy concerns

The AHA April 24 urged the Sequoia Project to delay implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement Individual Access Services Exchange Purpose Standard Opera...

Deprescribing medications in older adults: What the data reveals about safer care

HN Summary • Older adults in Canada face growing risks from polypharmacy, with many taking 10 or more medications annually and higher exposure to high-risk drugs in long-term care...

Protecting Access to Care for Our Most Severely Ill Patients

Few patient populations are more vulnerable to the shifting winds around health care today than Medicare beneficiaries who need specialized, high-acuity and long-stay care.The Esse...

AHA Chair authors column in USA Today insert on advancing patient safety

USA Today published a column  by AHA Board Chair Marc Boom, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist, highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to raise t...