People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can’t hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes?
in January that public reporting would compromise data integrity by leading hospitals to scrub records to hide bad events.
“You’re going to have to protect data for a while — de-identify it,” she said, “so that we can do what needs to be done.” She said that a patient safety board “will not happen” without broad support, including from hospitals and medical societies. Those groups have longThat industry influence is “the elephant in the room,” said McGiffert. Hospitals, nursing homes, and medical professionals pour hundreds of millions of dollars into federal political campaigns each election cycle and spent $220 million lobbying Congress last year, according to OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks money in U.S. politics.
Feinstein agreed that legislators always ask about the position of their local health systems. “That is the first question,” she said during the January forum. Although patient safety groups represent the interests of millions of people, they don’t have the same financial firepower on hand as the health care industry does. McGiffert said her own organization’s bank balance is $6,000. Feinstein said her foundation is using its endowment — created with proceeds from the sale of a tax-exempt hospital — to fund the patient safety board campaign, among other initiatives.
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