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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