Today, numerous patient safety software solutions allow organizations to track and record incidents and events, escalate them to the right person and take the necessary actions at the right time. 

The right patient safety software solutions will include workflows related to complex healthcare regulatory standards so that every individual across the organization knows their responsibilities. They will provide the flexibility to report incidents from any location on any device, such as a desktop, laptop, or mobile phone. The right patient safety software solutions will also have healthcare analytics to uncover healthcare trends that can help improve safety processes and procedures with time. Most importantly, they take data security as a top priority by implementing data protection mechanisms such as encryption, authentication, and authorization.

Challenges of adopting patient safety software solutions

While having such multiple features allows organizations to automate most workflows, it can be challenging to leverage them because most of the current software solutions for patient safety are stand-alone applications requiring specific knowledge and coding skills. Therefore, hospitals may require hiring or outsourcing programmers to implement and maintain such solutions, and it means they need separate hiring, maintenance, and training costs. Also, the hospital staff may find it difficult to deal with several technologies because of their lack of knowledge and time to learn such software. 

Patient safety software with application consolidation

Hence, the patient safety software solution they choose will need to be as simple as possible where the staff can easily adjust themselves to use it. One of the pillars of digital transformation is Application Consolidation, which means reducing the number of technologies used in a hospital using a common platform. With application consolidation, patient safety solutions can streamline resources by combining multiple applications reducing the complexity of managing them.