The Global Patient Safety Forum is the convening organization of the world's leading patient safety organizations, whose mission is to save lives, save money, and build value in the community communities we serve by accelerating solutions in patient safety from suppliers through providers to purchasers of healthcare including consumers.
The Forum was expressly founded to be an accelerator of enormously important activities of other organizations, and is not a competitor with any organization.
It was created after a very successful global patient safety summit in networking supplier provider and purchasing organizations in their quest for saving lives to healthcare-associated infections.
The focus of the Forum will be leadership, practices, and technologies solutions that save lives in the areas of medication management, healthcare-acquired infections, and a number of the adverse events that have occurred around the world, common to all countries.
The strategic four initiatives undertaken by the Global Patient Safety Forum include the following:
Leadership:
The Forum will support the LEAD Healthcare Fellowship Program and its initiatives worldwide. It will convene global quality and safety certifying purchasing and government stakeholders as members. Specific leadership focus will be on hospital and healthcare organization governance and administrative teams. The Forum will also focus on leadership improvement in the interfaces among suppliers, providers, and purchasers. An example of leadership projects includes a cross-industry adoption effort such as a global risk identification and mitigation initiative applying best practices from all countries including the National Transportation Safety Board methods of the USA to learn from high impact, high volume, and highly preventable healthcare accidents with the goal of driving down harm and waste. See the Global Patient Safety and HIT Summit from April 27, 2012.
Practices:
The Forum will establish a global patient safety framework built on the success of the National Quality Forum, a public-private partnership in Washington, DC. It will establish a global Safe Practices Synchro-harmonization program that can be used to make the NQF Safe Practices for Better Healthcare effective for all O.E.C.D. countries. The Forum will use the National Quality Forum Safe Practices as a template that can be refined by countries around the world.
Technologies:
The Forum will establish a solutions engagement program for high-performance healthcare initiatives involving the entire Patient Safety Value Chain from suppliers through providers to purchasers – both private and governmental. It will undertake research of "accelerators and barriers" of rapid patient safety innovation adoption including conflict of interest. It will investigate and develop "safe harbor" practices to allow trading partners to innovate and spread best practices
Communication and Convening:
The Forum will broadcast quality patient safety documentaries that will be formulated in cross-cultural international versions. They will be deployed by state-of-the-art multimedia and social media means so that they may be used by suppliers, providers, and purchasers in their quest for improved patient safety. A secure Web portal will be created for research and development, and a knowledge management system will be provided to the member organizations.
