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A Standardized Handoff Process
The I-PASS Bundle
Reduce Patient Harm with I-PASS
The I-PASS Institute provides hospitals with a proven blueprint for assessing and implementing a standardized handoff process making it easier for hospitals to reduce their patient harm caused by miscommunication.
Implementing the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute's solution ensures sustained adherence to the I-PASS mnemonic structure over time and leads to reductions in harm to patients. Our I-PASS Bundle has been clinical proven to reduce patient harm by up to 70% when all tools of the bundle are used together.
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A Proven Blueprint for I-PASS Implementation
The I-PASS Institute provides hospitals with a proven blueprint for implementation, making it easier for hospitals to implement with real-world eperience and technology-enabled tools.
Institutional Handoff Strategy Development
Experts in the I-PASS Handoff Program help drive implementations and navigate challenges to change practice.
- Experience gained from implementations in 80 + institutions
- Timelines and implementation milestones
I-PASS Certified Coaches
Certified Coaches with years of real-world implementation experience guide hospitals every step of the way
- Leverage experience from previous implementation efforts to offer guidance and oversight to all aspects of the I-PASS implementation process
- Actively manage the relationship with I-PASS sites through site-visits and regular conference calls
- Customize an implementation and sustainment plan that ensures effective adaptation and use of I-PASS Institute tools and services based on the unique enabling factors and barriers that exist within each hospital
I-PASS Training
Our interactive, online simulation environment makes initial and ongoing training engaging, efficient and effective, for permanent and rotating staff.
- Engages trainees through an innovative simulated handoff experience with specialty-specific scenarios
- Users practice both verbal and written handoffs and then record a synthesis for a received patient
- Affords ability to train an unlimited number of users without the need for in-person didactic workshops
- Facilitates new user pieces of training and refresher courses as needed
- We have pre-developed modules in a wide array of specialties, and can work with content experts to develop additional modules for your institution
I-PASS Assessment & Improvement
A web-based benchmarking tool that facilitates direct observational reinforcement by tracking key metrics.
- Allows for secure, evidence-based assessment of handoff processes
- Automates data collection and analysis on smartphone, tablet or workstations
- Offers the opportunity for internal and external benchmarking
- Affords ability to generate run charts, compliance reports, and dashboards in real-time at the unit, specialty, or hospital level
- Implemented simply with no IT staff requirements
I-PASS eVIEW
Pre-built I-PASS templates can be customized by care area to facilitate the written handoff process
- Clinical service leaders can customize as many templates as needed to meet care area workflows
- Web-based, administrative access to the “Template Editor” allows for efficient management of templates (add, change, etc.)
- The library is preset with the I-PASS Institute’s pre-configured templates
- Ability to update in real-time reduces dependencies on hospital IT staff and facilitates rapid cycle improvement
- Fully encrypted to ensure industry standards for privacy and security
Return on Investment
The insurer and the hospital share a mutual financial benefit when a standardized handoff program is implemented.
- Research shows that medical errors are a serious source of financial loss for hospitals across the country
- Of 350,000 malpractices cases, communication was shown to be a factor in 30% of cases, which represent $1.7 billion in total incurred losses
- Adverse events are costly, and a reduction in adverse events can result in significant savings. The insurer and the hospital share a mutual financial benefit when a standardized handoff program is implemented
Institutional Handoff Strategy Development
Experts in the I-PASS Handoff Program help drive implementations and navigate challenges to change practice.
- Experience gained from implementations in 80 + institutions
- Timelines and implementation milestones
I-PASS Certified Coaches
Certified Coaches with years of real-world implementation experience guide hospitals every step of the way
- Leverage experience from previous implementation efforts to offer guidance and oversight to all aspects of the I-PASS implementation process
- Actively manage the relationship with I-PASS sites through site-visits and regular conference calls
- Customize an implementation and sustainment plan that ensures effective adaptation and use of I-PASS Institute tools and services based on the unique enabling factors and barriers that exist within each hospital
I-PASS Training
Our interactive, online simulation environment makes initial and ongoing training engaging, efficient and effective, for permanent and rotating staff.
- Engages trainees through an innovative simulated handoff experience with specialty-specific scenarios
- Users practice both verbal and written handoffs and then record a synthesis for a received patient
- Affords ability to train an unlimited number of users without the need for in-person didactic workshops
- Facilitates new user pieces of training and refresher courses as needed
- We have pre-developed modules in a wide array of specialties, and can work with content experts to develop additional modules for your institution
I-PASS Assessment & Improvement
A web-based benchmarking tool that facilitates direct observational reinforcement by tracking key metrics.
- Allows for secure, evidence-based assessment of handoff processes
- Automates data collection and analysis on smartphone, tablet or workstations
- Offers the opportunity for internal and external benchmarking
- Affords ability to generate run charts, compliance reports, and dashboards in real-time at the unit, specialty, or hospital level
- Implemented simply with no IT staff requirements
I-PASS eVIEW
Pre-built I-PASS templates can be customized by care area to facilitate the written handoff process
- Clinical service leaders can customize as many templates as needed to meet care area workflows
- Web-based, administrative access to the “Template Editor” allows for efficient management of templates (add, change, etc.)
- The library is preset with the I-PASS Institute’s pre-configured templates
- Ability to update in real-time reduces dependencies on hospital IT staff and facilitates rapid cycle improvement
- Fully encrypted to ensure industry standards for privacy and security
Return on Investment
The insurer and the hospital share a mutual financial benefit when a standardized handoff program is implemented.
- Research shows that medical errors are a serious source of financial loss for hospitals across the country
- Of 350,000 malpractices cases, communication was shown to be a factor in 30% of cases, which represent $1.7 billion in total incurred losses
- Adverse events are costly, and a reduction in adverse events can result in significant savings. The insurer and the hospital share a mutual financial benefit when a standardized handoff program is implemented
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