Topic: Defining and Achieving Diagnostic Excellence in Clinicians and Health Care Organizations (webinar NOT recorded)

Overview: The session will discuss background related to diagnostic errors in medicine, their contributory factors and frameworks and action steps clinicians and health care organizations can take to reduce diagnostic errors and achieve diagnostic excellence.

Speaker: Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH

Chief, Health Policy, Quality and Informatics Program

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor

College of Medicine, Houston

Moderator:
Diana Bottari, DO
Medical Director of Controlled Substance Monitoring Team
Lead Physician Opioid Mitigation Strategies

Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

• Describe the various types of diagnostic errors in medicine

• Identify systems and cognitive contributory factors that lead to diagnostic errors in the EHR era

• Apply frameworks and approaches to measure and mitigate diagnostic error and achieving diagnostic excellence

Target Audience: Physicians, advanced practice clinicians and other interested healthcare professionals