Quotable Quotes

“Since 1999, these many individual attempts to reduce hospital mistakes have actually resulted in an increase in preventable errors.  While every hospital considers itself to have the answer to this global pandemic, statistics do not support that claim.”

“The ability to learn from these systems (individualized attempts) is limited because they (hospitals) do not ‘talk’ to each other.  Data is not combined or aggregated in the same manner because there is no standardized system”.

National Quality Forum (Healthcare), NQF, “Standardizing a Patient Safety Taxonomy”, 2006

“We need to reduce medical errors with better information technology.”

President George Bush, 2006 and 2007 State of the Union Address

“Processes that lend well to reduced error rates are not shared with other facilities that may employ procedures that lend well to increased error rates. Merely collecting data is an exercise in futility unless positive statistical facts can be shared, in a confidential manner, with all, (knowledge transfer). Changes in view, direction and treatment of preventable medical errors are needed to serve as a foundation for drastic improvement. The collection of error data is of no consequence unless the user has immediate access and a guided usage towards immediate application of statistical facts.

“Hospitals must abandon their common attitude of, ‘resistance to change,’ and adopt a standardized approach to the very serious global pandemic of medical adverse events. Above all, they must learn and completely understand that a ‘facility specific’ approach to industry issues never… ever works”.

William Hoyes, MedErr DataApplication Ltd.