Improving healthcare quality is one primary focus of the Global TapRooT® Summit, an international event with world-renowned speakers and multiple tracks designed to share best practices within and across industries, including healthcare / hospitals and pharmaceuticals / medical devices. Attendees learn to improve incident investigations, prevent sentinel events and develop a performance improvement plan.
Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) March 18, 2015
Advanced techniques to improve patient safety is one of multiple topics to be presented at the Global TapRooT® Summit, June 1-5, 2015, Las Vegas, NV. The Improving Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety Track, and an exclusive new Root Cause Analysis for Sentinel Events & Healthcare Quality Improvement 2-Day Pre-Summit Course equip healthcare professionals to take their facilities to the next level.
TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis is used across industries: healthcare / hospitals, pharmaceuticals / medical devices, oil exploration and production, refining, chemical, utilities / nuclear, manufacturing, mining, transportation, regulatory and construction.
At the Summit, healthcare professionals learn why the The Joint Commission recognizes TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis terminology, and how to take advantage of the proven tools that TapRooT® provides in healthcare. With clinical examples and healthcare experts teaching, this learning experience provides the healthcare community with the best root cause analysis tools on the market, and the knowledge to use them.
Speakers on the Healthcare Track include John T. James Ph.D., Founder of Patient Safety America, an organization dedicated to educating ordinary citizens about overuse, misuse, and underuse of medical services and healthcare risks. Dr. James is the author of "A Sea of Broken Hearts – Patient Rights in a Dangerous, Profit-Driven Health Care System" (2007). A special guest Keynote speaker this year is Captain Richard Phillips, author of "A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea" who will inspire attendees with his message about navigating through rough waters.
Las Vegas, NV is known as the Entertainment Capital of the World, and also as the location for the Summit. All the lights, excitement and attractions draw people from around the globe. The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel centrally located on the strip and the LINQ Promenade, was handpicked for the 2015 Summit venue to ensure a one-of-a-kind conference.
About System Improvements, Inc. | TapRooT®
System Improvements has 40+ highly skilled instructors/investigators/facilitators who teach public and onsite TapRooT® Courses globally and provide on-site consulting. Companies around the world have used the TapRooT® System to help people investigate accidents, incidents, quality problems,equipment failures, schedule delays, cost overruns, hospital sentinel events, and many other types of problems. TapRooT® is also used to improve the effectiveness of audits,observations, and self-assessments in proactive improvement efforts.
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