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Innovation Submissions
How it works
1. Submit
Submit responses to a few questions regarding your innovation.
2. Review
Our team will review your submission and follow up if any additional information is required.
3. Decision
You will receive notification within 4-6 weeks regarding whether your innovation has been selected to be highlighted on PSNet.
What You Need to Know
- Applicable to US healthcare setting
- Grounded in patient safety and not quality or quality improvement alone
- May improve the process with or without improving patient outcomes if the innovation dramatically improves patient care delivery; however, must not have a negative effect on patients
- Practical, efficient, timely, and cost effective (e.g., impact on patient safety outcomes outweigh the investment to implement)
- Applicable and scalable to other sites
- Employing tools or systems that are not proprietary/commercial
- Implemented at a single site (e.g., patient care setting, unit, department) are acceptable, however multi-site innovations will be prioritized
- Implemented at the facility, system, regional, or state level
- Implemented and sustained for no less than two years and no more than five years
- Have undergone empirical evaluation using quantitative methods to demonstrate improvements in patient safety outcomes and/or practice
- Highlighted in the patient safety peer-reviewed published literature
Browse Innovation Examples
UNC Health is a nonprofit healthcare system of more than 500 clinics and 16 hospitals in North Carolina. In early 2021, it developed an innovation to reduce health disparities by screening patients for... Read More
The Rescue Improvement Conference (RIC)1 was designed at the University of Michigan to address failure to rescue with a particular focus on communication and complication management. Failure to rescue typically refers to a health system’s slow or... Read More
Retained surgical items (RSIs) cause severe yet preventable patient harm. RSIs are the most common category of surgical never events.1 An RSI occurs when a needle, sponge, or surgical instrument is unintentionally left... Read More
Suicide is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, and the 3rd leading cause of death for people ages 15-24.1 More than 4% of all emergency department visits are attributed to psychiatric conditions2 and 3–8% of all... Read More
