Using a Patient Safety Organization to Sharing Real-Time Safety Information with Patients and Families

This project will address [the problem of patient harm] with the effective use of existing health IT to provide a way for patients to view real-time patient safety…Using an existing Patient Safety Organization (PSO) platform, patients will be engaged in the use of real-time safety information and associated patient safety checklists to improve the safety of their care. The project will pilot this innovative model at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and then evaluate the impact of the use of this safety information on patients and families.