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On September 24th, the United States Senate convened a hearing on reducing healthcare associated infections. One of the hearings' witnesses was Joe Kiani, the founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. Mr. Kiani summarized five strategies that Congress should consider to decrease preventable patient deaths:
- Promote transparency by continuing to standardize quality metrics that health care organizations are required to report to the public
- Provide strong incentives and disincentives by expanding current CMS policies for reimbursements for hospital acquired conditions
- Improve information technology by granting federal officials more authority to investigate practices that actually block information
- Give vendors a "safe harbor" to report technology associated adverse events
- Ensure patient involvement by mandating patient advocates in all hospitals
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