Patients For Patient Safety US

Patients For Patient Safety US Our vision is a world in which no one is harmed in healthcare and every patient receives safe and respectful care, every time, everywhere.

Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS US) is a network of people and organizations aligned with the World Health Organization (WHO) and focused on making healthcare safe in the United States. Our mission is to implement the recommendations of the World Health Organization Global Action Plan for Patient Safety 2021-2030 in the USA.

As Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS US) approaches its 5th anniversary this June, we invite everyone to become engag...
04/17/2026

As Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS US) approaches its 5th anniversary this June, we invite everyone to become engaged as a PFPS US Patient Safety Champion. There is no cost or any specific time commitment. PFPS US Champions have the opportunity to become more involved in a range of activities to advance patient safety, such as contributing to public comments on government rules and programs, participating in research-related and measurement activities, engaging with healthcare leaders and policymakers, and serving on working groups, advisory boards, or expert panels.

PFPS US also would like the ability to call on you to contribute the patient voice to opportunities like these as they come up:

🌎 The Guardians of the Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) — this PFPS US working group is developing video stories to inspire hospitals to adopt 25 patient safety best practices. Check out these prototype stories on YouTube.

🌎 April 23rd at 1 PM ET — Webinar to provide patient and family feedback to Mayo Clinic on its new “HealthLocator” hospital quality and safety rating system. You can register here to participate.

🌎 CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is expected to propose new safety and quality measures within the next two weeks, including new sepsis prevention best practices. Champions can serve as an important public voice in encouraging CMS to adopt measures like this.

🌎 Fall advocacy in Washington, DC, focusing on diagnostic safety and patient reporting — PFPS US Champions will be needed to make visits to Congressional leaders and their staff.

🌎 Ongoing work to get Project PIVOT questions tested and ready for use in patient experience surveys and research.

Learn more here ⬇️

https://www.pfps.us/become-a-champion

Patient Engagement and empowerment is perhaps the most powerful tool to improve patient safety.

Want to make a difference in patient safety? Healthcare is changing fast with AI and industry changes, and there's never...
04/13/2026

Want to make a difference in patient safety? Healthcare is changing fast with AI and industry changes, and there's never been a better time to join us as a PFPS US champion to help us work toward our goal for diagnostic excellence and safe care for all. Learn more here! https://www.pfps.us/become-a-champion

Patient Engagement and empowerment is perhaps the most powerful tool to improve patient safety.

“Closure is the worst-case scenario, but it also doesn’t preclude hospitals from having to make really tough decisions a...
04/03/2026

“Closure is the worst-case scenario, but it also doesn’t preclude hospitals from having to make really tough decisions about cutting services that might be essential to those communities but are just no longer financially viable,” O’Grady said.

Across the country, hospitals have already made statements warning they may need to lay off staff or scale back care, including maternity and mental health care, because of the Medicaid cuts.

Together, the hospitals provide care for nearly 7 million patients across the U.S., according to the analysis.

"A 2023 study estimated that 371,000 people die a year and 424,000 are disabled following a misdiagnosis...Some research...
03/31/2026

"A 2023 study estimated that 371,000 people die a year and 424,000 are disabled following a misdiagnosis...Some research suggests that many, if not most, diagnostic errors arise from failures in thinking—cognitive bias, premature closure, insufficient reflection. What a diagnostician does is not so different from what AI claims to do. Both use enormous amounts of information to recognize patterns in symptoms and diagnoses that tend to appear together.

A doctor does this through medical education and personal experience; AI does it by predicting plausible explanations based on statistical patterns it has learned from its training materials.

AI could also prove valuable in identifying conditions that a physician may never encounter in their career, or in helping diagnose patients that have stumped multiple clinicians. These cases tend to hinge on how encyclopedic a doctor’s knowledge of the medical literature is; AI can recognize obscure patterns across millions of cases and publications, and surface possibilities that may lie outside any single physician’s experience. An LLM can recite treatment options and survival rates, but it cannot share responsibility for the choices that follow...Relying on AI for certain aspects of diagnosis could help free doctors to focus on those more human parts of the job."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/03/diagnositic-excellence/686622/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69cbd70949934b0001c80288&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

“To me, the concept of the master diagnostician is that you’re never good enough,” one doctor said.

Safety is healthcare’s most sacred promise—but sustaining high reliability requires aligned leadership, strong learning ...
03/16/2026

Safety is healthcare’s most sacred promise—but sustaining high reliability requires aligned leadership, strong learning systems, and workforce trust.

“State of Healthcare Safety 2026,” a Press Ganey Signature Report, draws on data from 1.3M employees, 23.5M patients, and 7.1M safety events to examine where safety performance is strengthening, where it remains fragile, and what leadership actions will accelerate progress.

https://www.pressganey.com/resources/e-books/safety-2026/?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_content=pr

Safety is healthcare’s most sacred promise—but sustaining high reliability requires aligned leadership, strong learning systems, and workforce trust.

ICYMI: Strong patient-clinician partnerships lead to better outcomes. When health care recognizes patients as part of th...
03/16/2026

ICYMI: Strong patient-clinician partnerships lead to better outcomes. When health care recognizes patients as part of the care team and supports health workers to deliver the care they aspire to provide, safety improves.

During Patient Safety Awareness Week and beyond, explore powerful stories that show how listening, trust, and shared decision-making strengthen care. Hear directly from patients and providers about what healthy care should look like: nam.edu/PatientProviderStories

Healthy Providers, Healthy Patients shares patient-provider stories showing how partnership and clinician support lead to safer, better care.

AI is rapidly transforming how diagnoses are made—bringing new opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and patien...
03/12/2026

AI is rapidly transforming how diagnoses are made—bringing new opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes. But as AI becomes more deeply embedded in clinical decision-making, it also raises important questions about safety, ethics, transparency, and trust.

Join Susan Brown Sheridan, President and CEO of PFPS US, and Divvy K. Upadhyay MD, MPH, CPPS, CPHRM, CPXP, and ECRI and for an upcoming live webinar on March 20 at 2 EST, Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma, where experts will explore how AI can both support and complicate diagnostic decision-making—and what healthcare leaders can do to implement these technologies responsibly.

https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ecri-events/navigating-the-ai-diagnostic-dilemma

March 20, 2026 | 2:00 pm ET Overview AI is rapidly reshaping how diagnoses are made—creating new opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes. At the same time, its expanding role in clinical decision-making introduces important challenges related to patient safety, ethics, ...

New report from ECRI: Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns in 2026This year’s #1 concern—Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma...
03/10/2026

New report from ECRI: Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns in 2026

This year’s #1 concern—Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma—underscores how unchecked dependence on AI tools can increase diagnostic errors, perpetuate bias, and erode critical thinking skills. Although AI has immense potential to improve clinical workflows and expand access to expertise, the rapidly growing use of AI in healthcare raises serious safety and governance challenges.

Several other topics highlight persistent obstacles—such as emergency department boarding and medication safety vulnerabilities in packaging and labeling design—that continue to strain the healthcare system.

A few topics featured this year include:

Reduced access to rural healthcare increases health risks and disparities

Increasing rates of preventable acute diseases

Effects of federal funding cuts on healthcare operations and patient safety

Download the report here:

ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026 highlights emerging critical patient safety challenges and provides actionable recommendations to address them.

It's Patient Safety Awareness Week and we have resources to share, including a webinar by IHI on March 12 about implicat...
03/09/2026

It's Patient Safety Awareness Week and we have resources to share, including a webinar by IHI on March 12 about implications for safety and quality for AI in healthcare:

Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual recognition event in March, is a way to encourage all to learn more about health care safety. During this week, IHI seeks to advance important discussions locally and globally, and inspire action to improve the safety of the health care system — for patient...

Join us on March 9 at 1:00 EST for our webinar on Advancing Age-Friendly Care: How Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of the Age-...
03/05/2026

Join us on March 9 at 1:00 EST for our webinar on Advancing Age-Friendly Care: How Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of the Age-Friendly Health Care System can achieve what matters most to older adults.

Every adult deserves safe, equitable, high-quality care grounded in what matters most to them. This webinar will examine OIG, AARP and other relevant research on the disproportionate risks older adults face in healthcare and show how Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care work together to improve outcomes for older adults.

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cdSb7MzRQU-zM6qA1jY-JA #/registration

Every adult deserves safe, equitable, high-quality care grounded in what matters most to them. This webinar will examine OIG, AARP and other relevant research on the disproportionate risks older adults face in healthcare and show how Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care work together to im...

We have two webinars coming up! Join us on March 4 at 1:00 EST for our update on the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measu...
02/27/2026

We have two webinars coming up! Join us on March 4 at 1:00 EST for our update on the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure and what comes next and on March 9 at 1:00 EST for "Advancing Age-Friendly Care: How Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of the Age-Friendly Care System Can Achieve What Matters to Most Older Adults." Links to both events are here: https://www.pfps.us/

Patient Engagement and empowerment is perhaps the most powerful tool to improve patient safety.

Mayo Clinic announced today that researchers and solutions developers now have access to decades of high-level, de-ident...
02/23/2026

Mayo Clinic announced today that researchers and solutions developers now have access to decades of high-level, de-identified data from Mercy through Mayo Clinic Platform's secure, privacy-preserving infrastructure.

Through Mayo Clinic Platform, researchers, data scientists and innovators can now analyze larger, more diverse patient populations from both Mayo Clinic and Mercy to explore new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases.

Mayo Clinic and Mercy expand collaboration, providing access to 15.2 million de-identified patient records to accelerate research and transform patient care.

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