Matt Scanlon

Safety Never Slept Better 10a: Human Error What purpose does this word serve for YOU?

Sharing the latest post from The Patient Safety Community’s blog on Substack

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We are a nation fucked

Exactly. Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

I absolutely agree. However, that is not what we have here. The CMS penalty for being “less than average” for securing organs has created a disturbing incentive for the agencies approaching families.

This is one of those situations when I don’t want to hit the “heart” button because I don’t know what it means.

I refer to the local Organ Procurement group as vultures.

How come the AIs haven’t been able to replace the AI researchers?

Lanquidity by Sun Ra please!

FAFO, nazis

Studio Ghibli deserves better than derivative AI shite

As someone who lives in Wisconsin, I applaud this.

It’s missing Trump and Elon’s birthdays on the timeline 🤔

I took a hiatus and am pleased to see more familiar names here. But I still can’t find the rich discussions that were on the social media site formally known as Twitter.

Whether that’s because I can’t find them, people are too busy/burned out, or having the discussions elsewhere is unclear to me.

We don’t need more poorly designed checklists, alerts, policies, cognitive debiasing exercises, RCAs, and the list goes on.

We’ve wasted 25 years. More of the same is stupid.

If you want to improve the safety of healthcare we need to:
1) stop focusing on human error, a post hoc social construct assigned based on hindsight and outcome bias,
2) truly study how healthcare is delivered (RIP AHRQ),
3) partner with people who are experts in the science of safety

The problem with checklists ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive...

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Patient Safety Network abruptly cut by Trump administration. The latest DOGE destruction targets a respected project that helped protect Americans from medical errors by supporting a cultural shift around safety.

Nice shout out on the role of PSNet and the gap it will create by being defunded ... #patientsafety insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-pati...

On no planet is Google listening to every conversation a good thing. Any company that chooses to delete their prior mission of “don’t be evil” is telling you that they do evil.

Looks like we need HFEsky and Safetysky feeds.