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Lessons learned implementing a complex and innovative patient safety learning laboratory project in a large academic medical center.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:The objective of this paper is to share challenges, recommendations, and lessons learned regarding the development and implementation of a Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) project, an innovative and complex intervention comprised of a suite of Health Information Technology (HIT) tools integrated with a newly implemented Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor system in the acute care setting at a large academic center. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The PSLL Administrative Core engaged stakeholders and study personnel throughout all phases of the project: problem analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Implementation challenges and recommendations were derived from direct observations and the collective experience of PSLL study personnel. RESULTS:The PSLL intervention was implemented on 12 inpatient units during the 18-month study period, potentially impacting 12,628 patient admissions. Challenges to implementation included stakeholder engagement, project scope/complexity, technology/governance, and team structure. Recommendations to address each of these challenges were generated, some enacted during the trial, others as lessons learned for future iterative refinements of the intervention and its implementation. CONCLUSION:Designing, implementing, and evaluating a suite of tools integrated within a vendor EHR to improve patient safety has a variety of challenges. Keys to success include continuous stakeholder engagement, involvement of systems and human factors engineers within a multidisciplinary team, an iterative approach to user-centered design, and a willingness to think outside of current workflows and processes to change health system culture around adverse event prevention.

SUBMITTER: Businger AC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647251 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lessons learned implementing a complex and innovative patient safety learning laboratory project in a large academic medical center.

Businger Alexandra C AC Fuller Theresa E TE Schnipper Jeffrey L JL Rossetti Sarah Collins SC Schnock Kumiko O KO Rozenblum Ronen R Dalal Anuj K AK Benneyan James J Bates David W DW Dykes Patricia C PC

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 20200201 2

<h4>Objective</h4>The objective of this paper is to share challenges, recommendations, and lessons learned regarding the development and implementation of a Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) project, an innovative and complex intervention comprised of a suite of Health Information Technology (HIT) tools integrated with a newly implemented Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor system in the acute care setting at a large academic center.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>The PSLL Administrative ...[more]

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