The Sullivan Group Risk Mitigation MEDHOST Minute
Many thanks to MEDHOST for the opportunity to present The Sullivan Group’s (TSG) Risk Module in the MEDHOST Minute. TSG was founded to help emergency practitioners establish best practices, enhance patient safety, and reduce both medical errors and the resulting exposure to litigation. We have enjoyed our growing relationship with MEDHOST, and it has been a pleasure to partner on this mission of patient safety and medical error reduction. We have found MEDHOST’s technology to be uniquely adaptable for a smooth fit with the TSG Risk Module’s various components.
MEDHOST partnered with TSG several years ago to add risk management tools to its EDIS as a way to provide evidence-based medicine with real-time risk alerts based on charting input. These risk and safety tools are available at the point of care and immediately within MEDHOST, not multiple clicks and passwords away.
Neither TSG nor MEDHOST view risk management in the traditional sense, which for years has been optimal management of litigation after a patient injury. We see risk mitigation in a new light, which includes providing clinical tools inside the EMR and proactively arming busy ED physicians with resources and information they need to help ensure an optimal patient experience. So, we first strive to help ED physicians make the right diagnoses and keep patients safe, and therefore, help them avoid lawsuits. We also recognize that the volume of information that must be “front of mind” in emergency medicine exceeds the abilities of human cognition, so we align that information with mental workflow and make it immediately available inside the EMR.
Together, MEDHOST and the TSG Risk Module:
• Strike a balance of providing key information and alerts within the normal workflow without hard stops, screen pop-ups or anything that could slow down patient care. The integration floats in the background, and becomes apparent only when the possibility of patient injury or medical error rises to a pre-defined threshold.
• Ensure integration is evidence-based and built upon available best practices.
• Improve documentation, clinical practice and team communication, which have been demonstrated to reduce medical errors and medical malpractice risk.
• Enable users to modify certain elements of the solution based on personal risk tolerance.
I’m excited to join MEDHOST at the ACEP Scientific Assembly, Oct. 15-18 in San Francisco. I’ll be presenting in MEDHOST’s booth 1826 on Sunday, October 16 at 11:15 a.m. and look forward to sharing the power of TSG’s Risk Module and MEDHOST’s EDIS.
For more information about the TSG Risk Module and MEDHOST, please explore MEDHOST’s risk management information, visit TSG’s webpage or send us an email.
Kind regards,
Daniel J. Sullivan, MD, JD, FACEP