Safer Healthcare Now!

Safer Health care Now is a National initiative to decrease hospitalized patient complications and mortality rates in Canada. This initiative is an extension of the USA lead 100K Lives Campaign that was created by the Institute for Health care Improvement from Massachusetts, USA. The philosophy is that with the implementation of 6 key strategies in patient care delivery, the USA would save one hundred thousand lives in one year. They managed to surpass their objective, and were empowered to continue the vision further and this evolved into the 5 million Lives Campaign. This campaign has the objective to protect patients from 5 million incidents of medical harm over the next two years.
The six initiatives have a significant impact on the employees and medical staff of an organization, and they also require the support of various services and systems within an organization as well. To achieve the goals outline by the collaborative each team has established leaders. The leaders are able to communicate with their counterparts, as well as support representative through the use of discussion panels online. There are also chat areas set up to help encourage communication within each facility regarding status, challenges of implementation, and above all results. Everything is electronically communicated within a national scope. Participants and leaders also benefit from the technology of teleconferencing, which has linked all participating sites together.