Patient Safety: 10 Years After Landmark IOM Report, How Much Have We Learned?

Posted: November 13, 2009 - 1:04 pm ET

This webinar was originally broadcast on December 9, 2009 at 10:00am CST.

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• Robert Wachter, M.D.'s slides (PDF)
• George Reuther's slides (PDF)

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About this Webcast

The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” sent shock waves throughout the healthcare industry with its estimate that about 98,000 patients die annually because of preventable medical errors. The findings immediately cast a shadow on the high-quality reputation of American healthcare.

View this 60-minute editorial webcast to find out if the healthcare industry is any safer now, along with:

• What has happened in the decade since the report's landmark release
• Some of the barriers to improving healthcare safety
• Strategies and technologies that hold promise to make care safer

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Questions about the webinar? Please contact Martha Espinoza at mespinoza@modernhealthcare.com or 312.649.5297.

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