On February 15, 2011, at 2 p.m. EST, The TASA Group, Inc., in conjunction with Human Factors experts Will Nelson and Mark Heidebrecht, presented a free, one hour, interactive webinar, Medical Errors – Cause and Prevention, for all legal professionals.
The medical profession touches just about everyone’s life at one time or another. This $2.5 trillion industry includes almost 600,000 establishments that vary in size, staffing patterns and organizational structure. For example, although hospitals constitute only 1% of the establishments, they employ 35% of the workers. Consequently, the healthcare industry has a wide range of stakeholders, including the patient, medical services provider, hospitals, insurance companies, third party administrators, governments, equipment manufacturers, drug manufacturers, pharmacies, pharmacists, and certifying boards, to name some of those involved.

Reports indicate that in 2008 there were over 6.3 million measureable medical injuries; 1.5 million of those were associated with medical error. This resulted in $19.5 billion in extra costs to the healthcare system.

While other industries long ago recognized the need to develop a comprehensive approach to identifying and preventing future errors by targeting the root cause, the complexity of the medical industry has made it more difficult to implement uniform procedures. In addition, as technology has advanced, the quality control and patient safety processes have not always kept up with the increasingly complex nature of today’s healthcare system.

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