Patient Safety Awareness Week: DSS, Inc. Honors the Mission Every Day
Hosted by the Military Health System (MHS), Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) is an annual event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. PSAW has developed into a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done by the healthcare industry.
The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 million deaths. Some studies suggest that as many as 400,000 deaths occur in the United States each year as a result of errors or preventable harm. Many of these errors occur because staff carry large caseloads and manual processes are still too prevalent in healthcare.
Software-powered data visualization tools are an essential part of improving patient safety. When humans and machines collaborate, this paves the way to highly reliable, efficient care that can prevent many human errors.
Patient Safety Awareness Week celebrates past accomplishments with a focus on future potential. At DSS we’ve made it our mission to help build a safer future for patients, building innovative tools that tackle many of today’s persistent healthcare challenges:
Suicide Prevention Manager (SPM) – Leveraging the power of real-time data and process automation to protect high-risk patients, including Veterans. Learn more here.
Comprehensive Care Coordination (C3) – Avoiding preventable readmissions by connecting existing resources to give care teams enhanced coordination and clear, data-driven insight. Learn more here.
LiveData Periop Manager – The most comprehensive and cost-effective solution for managing, documenting, analyzing and improving every step of the perioperative process, from pre-operative patient assessments to discharge to the recovery room. Learn more here.
VistA Chemotherapy Manager (VCM) –VCM automates the entire chemotherapy treatment process, from therapy assignment to dose calculation to documentation of care. Learn more here.
TheraDoc – TheraDoc aggregates disparate EHR data in real-time for targeted patient surveillance and to fight threats such as antimicrobial resistance. VAMCs that use Theradoc were also able to pivot quickly and coordinate COVID-19 care for Veterans. Learn more here.
Trusted by the Department of Veteran Affairs for almost 30 years, DSS, Inc. deploys these and other innovative solutions to support VHA’s transformation to deliver high-reliability health care to Veterans.
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