Judy Milne, Duke Patient Safety Officer

February 15th, 2012

The Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 98,000 people die every year from preventable medical errors. What happens when one of these errors occurs at Duke? IHI invites you to be the detective in an interactive workshop on Root Cause Analysis, the process for understanding these errors.

On Tuesday, February 28th, from 5:15pm-6:45pm Duke Patient Safety Officer Judy Milne will present “Healthcare Root Cause Analysis (RCA): DUH approach to evaluating major medical errors.” Participants will investigate a case together involving a serious patient cardiac event to understand how it occurred from a human and system error perspective.

Where: Duke South Amphitheater
Food: DINNER WILL BE SERVED. So please RSVP here by 2/27.

Why: Errors in medicine affect patients, health professionals, business finances, and raise questions of system design. Yet students’ formal education on it is rather limited. This is a great chance for students to understand how quality and patient safety issues are handled in the real world! So come learn more and stuff your face while you’re at it!

1/31 Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Ferranti, Duke Chief Medical Information Officer

January 19th, 2012

What: “Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Health Informatics in Support of Care Quality, Translational Research, and Clinical Effectiveness” with  Dr. Jeffrey Ferranti, Chief Medical Information Officer for the Duke University Health System and Associate Director for the Duke Center for Health Informatics

When: Tuesday, Jan 31, 6-7pm

Where: Duke South Amphitheater

RSVP: Contact Paras Fatemi (parastou.fatemi@duke.edu) by 1/29

FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED

Details: Dr. Ferranti will speak about how to “Bridge the Gap” in health care by leveraging health information technology. Dr.  Ferranti’s work includes the implementation of Duke’s Maestro Care system. With the HITECH Act of 2009, we can all expect health care settings that in the very near future (if not already) will use health IT for the purposes of improving patient care. See the government’s official site here for more information. This talk will give us an opportunity to consider what this change means for us as future health care professionals and for Duke University Health System.