eLearning—Apr. 01, 2011
Building the Future of Lifelong Patient Safety Education
APS believes that the best way to help patients is to help the people who care for them. From creating an entirely new generation of lifelong education online to defending clinicians...[learn more]
eLearning—Feb. 03, 2011
HCA and APS Improve Patient Safety
HCA spearheaded a broad initiative to improve safety by creating uniformity in processes and procedures, supporting team behavior, viewing cesarean delivery as a process alternative rather than...[learn more]
eLearning—Feb. 03, 2011
CRICO/RMF and APS Reduce High Severity Cases
Harvard's Risk Management Foundation has achieved significant performance improvements within Harvard's CRICO system through a program including online...[learn more]
Litigation—Feb. 01, 2011
Continuing Legal Education
APS’s CLE courses are derived from APS’s online Continuing Medical Education (CME) library, which contains the same information thousands of nurses and physicians train on...[learn more]
eLearning—Apr. 01, 2011
Reducing Error in the Operating Room
Surgical error is responsible for an estimated one out of every four recorded medical errors, taking thousands of lives and costing patients and insurers approximately $1.5 billion annually. Clinicians at every point...[learn more]
eLearning—Apr. 01, 2011
Competency Maintenance in Obstetrics
As with all skills, if you don't use it, you lose it. Obstetrical skills are no different. Everyone requires frequent review and reassessment to keep their skills sharp...[learn more]
Solutions for Risk Managers
Proven, Proactive, and Targeted Risk Reduction
APS eLearning takes more than 17 years of lessons learned in the medical malpractice courtroom and builds engaging and interactive online learning courses to help clinicians avoid common risk scenarios, improve patient safety, and enhance healthcare risk management.
Developed with partners like the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, and focused on clinical practice in areas like obstetrics, surgery, and internal medicine, the APS eLearning courses reflect currently accepted standards and protocols as well as the wisdom of renowned experts. Through these courses, clinicians can practice their decision-making skills in a safe environment and benefit from feedback provided by highly respected leaders in their field.
APS courses are designed to suit the learning styles and busy work environment of clinicians. These clinicians are engaged in managing a wide range of case scenarios and dealing effectively with other members of a clinical team. A flexible, learner-centric design ensures that APS courses can satisfy the needs of clinicians with different levels of expertise and different roles.
Highlights
- 17 plus years of medicolegal experience
- Courses reflect current best practices
- Authored by world-renown healthcare risk management experts
- Designed for busy work environments
"APS courses provide critical clinical and patient safety information in an extremely effective and interactive manner. They focus on creating effective systems as well as individual competence. These courses have been an essential component of our successful efforts to reduce adverse outcomes and claims."
—Jack McCarthy
President, Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions
APS eLearning leads to significant improvements in health care risk management and medical error prevention, as seen in examples like these:
- Hospital Corporation of America: Dramatic Reductions in Claims and Liability Costs - HCA introduced a broad initiative to improve safety founded on strong education across the clinical team, and succeeded in lowering the number of claims by approximately 10% per year and the liability cost per birth by approximately 25% per year.
- Harvard's Risk Management Foundation: Since implementing a system-wide perinatal safety program which included APS curriculum as the foundation, CRICO saw a 62% decrease in high severity cases based on malpractice carrier data.
[top]