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FULFILLING THE PROMISE:
ADVANCING PATIENT SAFETY AND MEDICAL LIABILITY REFORM INNOVATIONS
A forum organized by Common Good, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for states, health care systems, and other interested entities and individuals to learn more about patient safety and medical liability reform innovations, and how to develop viable proposals for submission to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2010.
When: Thursday, December 10, 2009; 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been authorized to allocate $25 million to states and health systems to test various patient safety and medical liability demonstration models that: improve patient safety and reduce preventable errors; improve communication between doctors and patients; compensate injured patients fairly and efficiently; reduce meritless lawsuits; and reduce doctors’ insurance premiums. On December 10th, legal, medical, and policy experts from across the country joined potential grant applicants and other interested parties for a dialogue about how to develop, implement, and evaluate promising proposals.
View an agenda for the forum with separate videos of each panel and keynote address here.
Download the agenda here (doc).
Read Harvard School of Public Health Professor Michelle Mello's "Tips on Developing Strong Proposals" here (doc).
Amy Lynn Sorrel has written the following article about the forum for American Medical News:
Deadline Near for Patient Safety/Liability Reform Proposals
Emily Paulsen has written the following articles about the forum for FierceHealthcare:
Denying Malpractice Can Threaten Patient Safety
OB/GYNs Less Willing to Take on Risky Patients, Procedures
Lucian Leape, Part 1: Put Patient Safety at the Top of Your 2010 Strategic Plan
Lucian Leape, Part 2: Teamwork is crucial for safety. Too bad it isn't compensated
Please contact Andrew Park at Common Good with any questions or suggestions: apark@commongood.org. Thank you.
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