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Innovation Submissions
Watch our introductory video to learn more about submitting your own Innovation to PSNet.
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
Addressing diagnostic errors to improve outcomes and patient safety has long been a problem in the US healthcare system.1 Many methods of reducing diagnostic error focus on individual factors and... Read More
Concern over patient safety issues associated with inadequate tracking of test results has grown over the last decade, as it can lead to delays in the recognition of abnormal test results and the absence of a tracking system to... Read More
To address a well-documented hospital adverse outcome (in-hospital patient clinical deterioration), Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) developed and implemented the... Read More
Seeking a sustainable process to enhance their hospitals’ response to sepsis, a multidisciplinary team at WellSpan Health oversaw the development and implementation of a system that uses customized electronic health... Read More
