Experts Consider Patient Safety 20 Years After To Err is Human

Twenty years ago, the Institute of Medicine released, To Err is Human, a report which drew attention to the need to do more to prevent medical harm. In this American Hospital Association (AHA) Advancing Health podcast, Jay Bhatt, MPH, DO, AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, and Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, AONL CEO and AHA senior vice president/chief nursing officer, discuss the report’s impact on health care today. They offer their thoughts on lessons learned and the most important advances made in patient safety and quality of care since the report’s publication in 1999.