GE Healthcare introduces MERS (Medical Event Reporting System) to help improve patient safety.
Effective event reporting is a pivotal first step in helping reduce medical error. In fact, an increase in reported events will often precede a reduction in error rates.
With self-reported near-miss data, you can aggregate information to help recognize patterns and pinpoint causal factors. The MERS system captures critical information about events with and without harm, as well as near misses and unsafe conditions - the full universe of patient and employee safety issues - and turns it into actionable information that can be used to reduce error and mitigate risk.
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