Medical Error and Patient Safety: A New Compass

Welcome to RMFinteractive, an important new resource for navigating patient safety and health care risk management. Today's media reports often highlight the flaws in our health care delivery systems and the sensational cases they cause. The truth is everyone is more aware of what can go wrong and how that can hurt patients, providers, and the institutions that serve our communities.

Whether you are a physician or nurse, health system CEO, or hospital risk manager, access to the latest thinking, the best practices, and the most effective techniques in patient safety is critical to the survival of your practice or institution.


About Risk Management Foundation:
Risk Management Foundation was founded nearly 30 years ago to address patient safety, health care risk management and medical malpractice liability issues within the Harvard medical system. Although initially driven by the media focus on the high mortality figures, the patient safety movement is sustained by the recognition that there is much more we can do to decrease errors and injuries.

RMF is the leading resource of research into the nature of medical error, and provider of solutions to protect patients. Our analysis of risk factors and root issues common in medical malpractice cases has become a national model.

Now RMF's investments in technology and intellectual capital are available to everyone. The benefits of our experience make RMFinteractive the premier resource around the world for evidence-based risk management and patient safety information.

About RMFinteractive:
If you choose to subscribe to this web-based resource, you'll have access to:

  • guidelines, articles, interactive on-line learning, and exercises to address patient safety and risk management issues;
  • data behind defined risk areas for many clinical specialties;
  • audio interviews with opinion leaders and researchers;
  • best practices with detailed techniques for error prevention and care improvement;
  • examples and abstracts of actual closed malpractice claims;
  • valuable ongoing advice for self-insurance and captive programs;
  • relevant news about patient safety and risk management in focused areas; and
  • online product purchasing of Risk Management Foundation resources and materials.

We believe you'll agree that this comprehensive resource can arm you with the ideas you need to deliver the safest health care possible.