Reducing Clinical Risk: QI Path FMEA

Study after study shows that, even more than ten years after publication of the Institute of Medicine's "To Err is Human", shocking numbers of patients are being harmed or killed by medical errors in hospitals. The problem is now impossible to ignore, and consumers are up in arms. Hospitals know they're under the microscope. Payers and insurers are taking action, withholding payments from providers in cases involving preventable errors. To succeed, hospitals know they must make patients safer, drive reliability into systems of care and eliminate risk from clinical processes.

Proactive risk reduction with FMEA: a systems approach

Hospitals today understand that systems issues lie at the root of many dangerous and costly errors, and that real, sustainable improvement requires examination of the processes in which errors occur. Many healthcare providers use failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to proactively identify and reduce risk in clinical and operational processes - but many find FMEA to be daunting. While traditional FMEA tools work in many industries, healthcare professionals often find them cumbersome in the clinical environment.

Structured common sense: faster, more effective FMEA projects

QI Path's100% web-based FMEA system, designed specifically for use by hospitals and other healthcare providers, makes FMEA faster, easier and more effective. The QI Path FMEA system streamlines FMEA projects while maintaining a rigorous FMEA methodology to drive real, measurable improvements in clinical processes. Hospitals in the U.S. and Canada use the QI Path FMEA system to accelerate critical quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

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Take a PROACTIVE approach to patient safety

Patient safety and quality improvement professionals have used the QI Path FMEA system to address a variety of high risk processes, in a range of clinical settings. FMEA project teams in hospitals have used the system to reduce medication errors and improve IV medication administration, reduce patient falls, improve the safety protocols for oncology treatment, and control the spread of c. diff infections. They understand the need to improve reliability in the systems of care, and have chosen the QI Path system to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of their FMEA projects. See for yourself why thy chose QI Path: request a demo today!

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Who's using QI Path?

Hospitals around the U.S., Canada and other countries are using the QI Path FMEA system to reduce risk and make clinical processes more robust.