CODONICS MAKES MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY COMMITMENT TO THE PATIENT SAFETY MOVEMENT FOUNDATION’S GOALS TO REACH ZERO PREVENTABLE PATIENT DEATHS BY 2020
Irvine, California – January 9, 2014 – The Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare – this time with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare – convenes the second annual Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit on Jan. 11-13, where some of the world’s leaders in healthcare and government will work to help eradicate preventable patient deaths.
It is estimated that each year more than 200,000 patients die preventable deaths in U.S. hospitals. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation, established by the Masimo Foundation, is pushing for ZERO preventable patient deaths by 2020.
Building on the success of last year’s Summit – when for the first time nine leading medical technology companies publicly committed to make available the data their devices display so the information can be shared to improve patient safety – more than a dozen med tech companies will announce public pledges to share their data and dozens of healthcare systems and hospitals will announce their commitments as part of the Patient Safety Movement’s effort to reduce patient deaths. Attendees also will workshop, develop and define new Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) for three specific challenges: healthcare-associated infections, creating a culture of safety, and hand-off communications. These are responsible for more than 100,000 preventable hospital deaths a year in the U.S. alone. Implementation of the APSS should assist healthcare systems and hospitals in dramatically reducing preventable deaths.