One of my goals as ANIA President was to get a position
paper written during my term. The paper I wrote is about how to
best address patient safety issues in organizations. What are the
things that an organization can put in place to make sure they have
a good patient safety health initiative? The important thing is that
there is an easy and clear way to document this. There needs to
be a clear place to document so that the nurse or doctor entering
the incident can do so easily. The efforts around patient safety are
incorporated with the global safety effort of the organization. The
Office of the National Coordinator has actually developed an
action and surveillance plan for monitoring health IT safety. It’s
really about continuing to learn, recording data in a better way.