Before performing any healthcare act, it is important to understand and identify the possible risks. Once we understand and identify what the risks are, healthcare providers need to decide on their response to that risk and the different scenarios they may be faced with. This has to be done before any harm is done to patients. Two methods of doing this are the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). The FMEA is a preventative approach to measure and analyze the probability of error. The FTA is an analytical approach that shows the events that can lead to failure from unexpected life threatening scenarios. The FTA diagram appears as a tree, hence the "tree" analysis. It contains many different branches of causes and outcomes based on the scenario. Although both the methods provide information on the causes and effects harm, each analysis is done from different angles. The purpose of FMEA is to deliver reliability of medical interventions for a standardized process while FTA focuses on delivering patient safety from unexpected mishaps.

Course Objectives:

• Principles of proactive risk analysis
• The Joint Commission requirements for FMEA
• Safety analysis principles from FTA
• Choosing when to use each tool
• Right use and misuse of FMEA
• Identifying failure modes, risks, and preventive action
• Theory and practice of FTA
• Right use and misuse of FTA
• Real examples of FMEA and FTA
• Improving the culture of safety and reliability

Why Should You Attend:

Attend this training to learn how to predict failure events and potential causes, how to analyze a complex system containing numerous interconnected causes of failure, how to identify causes of a failure before it has happened, how to identify causes of a potential system failure during the process development.

The purpose of this webinar to teach the two most widely used risk analysis tools needed immediately to save 440,000 lives a year. The usual tool Six Sigma will not help much because it takes 10 years to implement it. The tools in this webinar can be used effective immediately.

Course Outline:

• Preventing harm to patients before it happens
• Principles of health care reliability
• Principles of healthcare safety
• Step-by-step approach for identifying all possible failures
• Success at VA hospitals
• Fault Tree Analysis benefits
• FTA, a proactive analysis approach to resolve undesired events
• Computing the risks from FMEA and FTA
• Designing the healthcare process for reliability
• Designing the healthcare process for Safety
• Monitoring the progress
• Integrating FMEA and FTA into systems engineering
• Communicating high risks to senior management

What You Get:

• Training Materials
• Live Q&A Session with our Expert
• Participation Certificate
• Access to Signup Community (Optional)
• Reward Points

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all levels of the following:

• Senior management
• Medical officers
• Risk management staff
• QA staff
• Marketing staff
• Doctors
• Health information technology staff
• Clinical engineers
• Patient safety staff
• Suppliers of medical equipment
• Quality assurance staff
• Regulatory staff
•Presidents and CEO's
•Quality Assurance Managers / Administration
•Risk Managers
•Patient Safety Specialists
•Nurses
•Doctors
•Patient Advocates
•Human Resource managers