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IOM - To Err is Human
Click here for full report "This report lays out a comprehensive strategy by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors." -
IOM - Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
click here for full report This report "makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap, recommends a redesign of the American health care system, and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others." -
IOM - Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality
Click here for report"The report says that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are not being adequately prepared to provide the highest quality and safest medical care possible, and there is insufficient assessment of their ongoing proficiency." -
President Bush calls for adoption of interoperable EHRs for most Americans by 2014 & establishes National Coordinator for HIT
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QSEN Initiatives
Click here for compentencies in pre-licensure KAS Three phase initiative to meet the challenge of preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. -
TIGER Initiative
Click here for full report 3-Year Action Steps toward a 10-Year Vision to address use of informatics “in practice and education to provide safer, higher-quality patient care” -
Pres. Cliniton creates PITAC to research a greater use of informatics
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AACN Informatics Competencies
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IOM - The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
Click here for copy of full report The committee developed four key messages, two of which are: 1) nurses should work with physicians and other healthcare professionals to redesign healthcare; and 2) effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information. infrastructure
