Hospital Safety Expert

  • Trained in Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals
  • Patient identification errors and proper procedures to avoid patient identification errors
  • Availability of published guidance to demonstrate commonly known high probability errors
  • Root cause analysis
  • Failure Mode Effects  Analysis (FMEA), a step by step approach to identify possible failures, and prioritize the risk of failure and the negative impact of a failure on patient safety
  • Patient drug-drug interactions and clinical decision support settings in electronic health records
  • Patient adverse drug reaction and clinical decision support settings in electronic health records
  • Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) accuracy of patient results
  • Reference laboratory billing and Standards regarding reporting of results
  • Intersection of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on the accuracy of patient records and patient’s right to view results
  • Review policies and procedures
  • Compare policy and procedures to timeline of events
  • Implementation of electronic workflow notifications to ordering physicians for laboratory results
  • Implementation of electronic workflow notifications to ordering physicians for radiology and diagnostic imaging results

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Electronic health record forensic Expert witness