Patient Safety Blueprint Event in Boston Charts a Course for Safer Care

As part of a grant from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) to Ariadne Labs, 25 patient safety thought leaders convened in Boston on March 6 to “Chart a Course for Safer Care” and inform the development of Ariadne Labs’ Blueprint for Transforming Patient Safety.

Leading up to the convening, Ariadne Labs interviewed 13 experts about patient safety challenges and innovative solutions. These solutions were further explored and prioritized during the convening. At the start of the convening, JHF President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD presented JHF’s 2025 patient safety agenda to activate seniors to protect themselves against medical harm through direct-to-consumer patient safety technologies, educational programs, and communication campaigns.

Throughout the day, the participants envisioned strategies to:

• Create a groundswell of consumer activation;
• Increase patient safety transparency and incentives;
• Establish collaborations across business, foundations, tech companies, and the healthcare industry to adopt safety solutions through an adapted National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) model;
• Deploy AI technologies to predict and prevent harm;
• Prioritize safety at the board-level through stronger financial implications; and
• Design an entirely new prototype of an ideal patient safety system.

Ariadne Labs will be developing a “Blueprint for Transforming Patient Safety” based on the ideas from the listening sessions and convening, and Johns Hopkins University and Patients for Patient Safety US will be hosting a follow-up event in May.