Revisiting the Swimlane Method: A Healthcare Case Study to Improve Patient Safety
Lydea’s latest blog explores how Swimlane could be applied in the healthcare industry. By mapping out the sequence of events, the tool helped uncover opportunities to improve processes and enhance safety.
Checking, checks, second checks, double checks and independent checks
In this deep dive, we explore the critical role of checking in detecting and correcting errors, especially in safety-critical industries.
Organisational learning – how mature is your organisation?
Following his last blog on safety culture in healthcare, Steve describes the traits of a healthy reporting culture, its impact on organisational learning and the need to adopt a proactive approach to risk and safety.
Safety culture? What’s the point?
“Safety culture” is something that many will have heard of. But what is safety culture? Is it important for actual safety outcomes – or is it an entirely academic matter, with no relation to how things work in your organisation? Does having a positive culture make any difference in the real world?
Safety assurance of autonomous intravenous medication management systems
The move towards increasingly automated and ultimately autonomous IV medication management systems might hold promise in reducing the IV medication error rate. However, fully automated and autonomous systems that are able to learn without human intervention are relatively recent phenomena in healthcare, and significant questions remain.
