Patient Safety Assessment

The Patient Safety Assessment service is a data-driven, expert-led assessment of your organization’s safety infrastructure and performance. The goal: to surface your best opportunities to improve outcomes—and to recommend specific efforts to support reliable prevention and mitigation of harm, bolster a culture of safety, and realize financial value for the organization. The service delivers findings and an executive report with recommendations and a roadmap to guide the sequence, pace, and scope for your safety improvement efforts.

The problem

Healthcare leaders recognize the need to leverage data and analytics to understand their organization’s safety outcomes—and most also recognize the complex of cultural, governance, and procedural factors that affect their safety performance. The problem? They lack an integrated, safety-focused approach to understanding their current strengths and vulnerabilities, identifying and prioritizing opportunities, and charting a feasible course forward on their journey to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO).

Our approach

Health Catalyst’s Patient Safety Assessment uses data from multiple sources to discover your organization’s most compelling safety improvement opportunities; determine their clinical and financial value; and identify the nature, sequence, and pace of change needed to achieve your safety goals.

Benefits and components

• Gain a comprehensive perspective via qualitative and quantitative data review. Our team leverages public and organizational data to assemble a comprehensive view of your safety infrastructure and performance. Typical inquiry encompasses benchmarking, percentile ranking, HACs and PSIs, penalties and bonuses, safety culture scores, staff engagement, and patient experience.
• Align with organizational priorities through impact and opportunity analysis. The team performs analyses to identify and quantify the cost of harm and the potential value of improvement in key areas.
• Benefit from our experience. Working with other health systems facing similar challenges in patient safety, our team brings deep expertise in safety and improvement science to help your organization identify and execute steps toward becoming High Reliability Organization.
• Access targeted recommendations and feasible roadmap. We identify your best opportunities and chart a proposed course forward to significant improvement in safety outcomes.