Patient safety is a critical aspect of high-quality healthcare and delivery. It refers to the measures taken to prevent harm to patients while receiving medical care. This can range from preventing medication errors to ensuring that medical equipment is properly sterilized. Patient safety is crucial because medical errors can have severe consequences, including injury or even death. In fact, medical errors are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, accounting for an estimated 250,000 deaths per year.
By focusing on patient safety improvement initiatives such as error prevention, care team collaboration, and safety-driven workflows, healthcare organizations can create safer environments and better outcomes for patients.
Improving Patient Safety In Your Facility
One way to improve patient safety is by promoting a culture of safety in healthcare facilities. This involves creating an environment where healthcare providers feel comfortable reporting errors or near-misses without fear of retribution. By encouraging open communication and transparency, healthcare providers can work together to identify and address potential safety concerns before they become major issues.
Another way to improve patient safety is through the use of technology. Digital rounding software, for example, allows nurses and doctors to track any corrective action that is processed and ensure its completion. This can help establish a closed-loop process throughout the hospital and improve patient safety and experience with their stay.
Rounding’s Influence On Patient Safety
There are several digital rounding software options available to healthcare providers, each with its own unique features and capabilities. Sentact is proud to offer the only comprehensive rounding platform available to healthcare facilities, which offers a Best Practice Toolkit for healthcare providers to manage patient care activities and improve patient safety. The Sentact Platform is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, with customizable workflows and reporting features to meet the specific needs of different healthcare organizations. With its robust set of features, Sentact’s solutions can help healthcare providers streamline their rounding process, reduce errors, improve communication and collaboration, and enhance patient engagement and satisfaction. Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features of the Solution and how they can assist in improving patient safety.
Sentact’s Best Practice Toolkit
Sentact’s Best Practice Toolkit contains a library that can assist hospitals in improving their patient safety practices around the facility. These toolkits are fully customizable, letting hospitals add or subtract questions that they feel are pertinent to the survey. These surveys have been proven to help improve the safety and wellness of patients and decrease the likelihood of a Patient Safety Event (PSE) occurring by 18%.
Utilizing Our Patient Safety Practices
Leveraging Sentact’s platform to improve your patient safety practices will allow your facility to yield substantial decreases in the frequency of Hospital Acquired Conditions within your facility, and lower the costs incurred along with them. Currently, in the United States, the odds of a patient contracting a HAC are 1:28, with costs totaling over $20,000,000 annually to treat them. Facilities that have utilized Sentact’s rounding platform have experienced an 10% decrease in HACs occurring as well as cost savings totaling over $2,500,000, and lowering the odds of an event occurring to 1:32.
Our platform includes automated corrective action that will immediately alert the appropriate staff of any issue found and will track the problem until it is resolved to ensure a closed-loop communication process.
Furthermore, our platform offers robust reporting/dashboards that provide leaders with key data to put action plans in place. Customizable with enhanced filtering capabilities provide enterprise to department level reporting, providing lead measures and predictive analytics to shift resources and focus your time.
Patient Safety’s Importance
Small changes can make a big difference in patient safety. Consistent rounding practices, for example, can help healthcare facilities reduce errors, improve workflows, and enhance overall patient outcomes.
If you’re interested in learning more about how Sentact’s solutions can benefit your facility, we invite you to schedule a demo. Our team will be happy to show how our Platform can help you exceed patient safety goals, streamline processes, and support better care for patients.
Take action today! Contact us to schedule your demo and discover how our Platform can help your organization achieve its patient safety objectives.
