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PRODUCTS

Patient Safety Monitor

ACCELERATORS

CAUTI

CLABSI

SSI

Sepsis

VTE Prevention

SERVICES

Patient Safety Assessment

Patient Safety Partnership

Patient Safety Organization

Trigger Review


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Patient Safety Monitor

Detect, analyze, and improve
Type: Software Application ID: 1486
Status: Generally Available Revised:  2022-May-27

The Patient Safety Monitor™ Application is a modular, scalable application that provides comprehensive support for key safety improvement activities: detection via automated surveillance, audits, and voluntary event reporting; analysis of risk, events, and care delivery; and improvement facilitated by monitoring and visualizations to prevent and mitigate harm.

The Patient Safety Monitor application centralizes automated safety surveillance, incident reporting, care audits, sophisticated analytics, and improvement project activities to support a comprehensive patient safety program.

The problem

From penalties to pandemics, healthcare systems confront compelling patient safety and public health needs that necessitate a more automated and active approach to safety improvement work. Several challenges prevent most systems from achieving zero harm, including complexity, insufficient data, staffing, and burnout. Forward-thinking organizations recognize the need to leverage data and analytics to improve their safety outcomes—and support their journey to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO)—though lack user-friendly and effective tools to do the job.

Our approach

Unlike traditional manual, siloed approaches, Patient Safety Monitor supports a comprehensive approach to improving patient outcomes and lowering costs.

  • Surveil. Detects the magnitude and nature of harm or risk, and variation in care delivery.
  • Audit. Facilitates more efficient assessment of potential incidents to fill gaps in EMR data and create a holistic view of harm, risk, and care deviation for medication errors, hospital-acquired conditions, etc.
  • Analytics. Uses data to understand and predict harm or risk and gain insight to support process improvement planning.
  • Improvement. Manages improvement projects to reduce CMS harm penalties, decrease cost per case, and improve patient outcomes.

Benefits and features

  • Increase visibility to patient safety events by 10x. Automated surveillance flags data values indicative of potential or actual safety issues, helping you identify the magnitude and nature of all-cause harm.
  • Simplify incident reporting. A streamlined, user-friendly workflow for staff to report – either anonymously or with their username – and manage patient safety events; a feedback loop keeps the reporter appraised of issue resolution.
  • Conduct comprehensive safety analysis. Integrated data from events and care audits support deeper data analysis and better inform improvement activities.
  • Streamline improvement work. Dashboards identify trends and root causes of harm and risk, facilitate efficient prioritization of safety work, and empower leaders to monitor outcomes.
  • Enable efficient and effective patient safety activities. A certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO) provides a legally protected space for safety improvement work, which encourages more participation and action.

Use cases

  • An infection preventionist and quality officer using Patient Safety Monitor observe a clinically confirmed rising rate of nursing-sensitive harm events (falls, pressure injuries, and hospital-acquired infections). They discuss the trend with nursing leaders and unit medical directors, and the group hypothesizes that recent reductions to nurse staffing (nurse:patient ratios) in some care units may be related. Root-cause analysis supports this hypothesis.
  • The chief medical officer and director of pharmacy lead their organization’s opioid stewardship program and seek insight into patient oversedation. They establish a data trigger to detect Narcan administration events, then use the data to analyze opportunities to intervene and improve patient outcomes. The team’s newfound visibility into patient oversedation and opioid reversal events supports organization-wide evolution of treatment protocols and order sets, resulting in measurable and sustainable process change.

Intended users

  • Chief patient safety, informatics, quality, or nursing officer
  • Patient safety, pharmacy, quality, risk, or healthcare facility staff member
  • Hospital epidemiologist
  • Infection preventionist
  • Patient safety clinical investigator
  • Service-line or unit-level leadership

Potential data sources

  • EMR - Clinical
  • Billing
  • Clinical Specialty


Key measures

  • Adverse event rates
  • Cost
  • Complications
  • Length of stay (LOS)
  • Mortality
  • Readmissions
  • Utilization

Associated services

  • Patient Safety Assessment - Comprehensive insight for meaningful safety gains
  • Patient Safety Partnership - A side-by-side partnership to optimize your use of the Patient Safety Monitor™ and catalyze dramatic improvement in safety outcomes
  • Patient Safety Organization (PSO) - A safe place for safety work, learning, and improvement
  • Trigger Review Services - Boost the efficiency and quality of automated trigger surveillance

Success Stories

For examples of how customers have used Health Catalyst products and services to improve outcomes, see our success stories at healthcatalyst.com.

Contact us

For more information on how Health Catalyst products and services can help your organization, please contact us:

  • Reach out to          your sales representative
  • Call us at               (855) 309-6800
  • Email us at             info@healthcatalyst.com

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Visualization modalities:

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Success stories

  • Reducing HAC Rates to Keep Kids Safe and Healthy

  • Patient-Centered LOS Reduction Initiative Improves Outcomes, Saves Costs

  • How to Reduce Preventable Healthcare Associated Conditions in Children Using Best Practice Bundles and Analytics

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Content Updated:    2022-June-01
Previous Publish Date:    2021-May-27
Code Updated:    2022-June-14
Umbraco Version:    PROD CMS-8.18.4 (SQLE-8x-PROD)
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