Read the RAPS Initiative Overview PDF. The Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) initiative launch event was held February 24 at Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Pittsburgh Technology Council, convening regional s...
Project & Program Updates
The 2023 National Quality Forum Annual Conference "Innovation in Action: Driving Change Through Measurement," held February 20-23 in Washington, DC, convened healthcare leaders to highlight public and private sector innovations that ar...
The National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) Full Court Press team meeting held virtually on February 7 provided a forum for a conversation between Full Court Press members and three national journalists on how to raise public interest and...
It's time for a National Patient Safety Board and to kick start the new year, the NPSB Advocacy Coalition released a 30-second video calling viewers to take action to support the creation of an NPSB. The goal of the video is to inform ...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein and Value Capture CEO and founding director of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI) Ken Segel discussed why federal action is critical to address preve...
Four additional competitions are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative: TreeHacks at Stanford University, Hollo...
Since 2009, the most influential players in healthcare innovation and technology, including the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, have also traveled to CES for its Digital Health Summit in search of innovative ways technology can enhance h...
Jason S. Adelman, MD, MS, a chief patient safety officer and associate chief quality officer and friend of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been awarded the Individual Achievement Award in the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety...
Two additional competitions, TAMUhack in Texas and the TeenTech Awards in London, are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional...
Over the last two and a half years, Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, has been advocating at the national level for the creation of a National...
U.S. Representative Nanette Barragán (D-CA) has announced the introduction of H.R.9377 – the National Patient Safety Board Act, legislation to establish an independent federal agency dedicated to preventing and reducing healthcare-rela...
The National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) Full Court Press meeting held on October 10 provided more than a forum for sharing updates on the effort to establish an NPSB: it also served as the setting for capturing the latest episode of t...
The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's (PRHI) Patient Safety Technology Challenge celebrated the completion of two more patient safety awards. As part of the Challenge, PRHI sponsored awards at HackMIT and The Pitt Challenge durin...
Five additional competitions are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative. The Patient Safety Technology Challeng...
Jewish Health Foundation's Chief Policy Officer Robert Ferguson, MPH was a featured speaker at the 2022 Annual Conference of the American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ), leading the session "Policy and Coalition Work for Establishin...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1M in grants September 13, including funds to develop the Initiative for Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon University; to establish the Women's Reproductive Health Eme...
On September 6, Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, was invited by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Board of Directors to discuss op...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein provided testimony September 21 to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on the foundation's support for the establishment of a Nat...
On September 17, designated as World Patient Safety Day by the World Health Organization, advocates for greater safety in health care gathered in Washington, DC, to take part in the annual March for Patient Safety. Patients for Patient...
The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's (PRHI) Patient Safety Technology Challenge celebrated the completion of the first of many patient safety awards at competitions across the country. As part of the Challenge, PRHI sponsored th...