The Role of Patient Engagement in Error Prevention

PULSE of NY, a New York patient
safety organization, announced today that registration has opened for Long
Island’s first patient safety conference on diagnostic error and patient
engagement. It will be held at the Holiday Inn in Plainview, NY on March 3,
2014, and will focus on efforts to improve diagnosis outcomes.

Diagnostic error is the leading
cause of medical malpractice claims in the US, and is estimated to cause
40,000-80,000 deaths annually. One in every ten diagnoses is wrong, according
to the Society to Improve
Diagnosis in Medicine.

The conference, titled

Medical Diagnosis: Help Your Doctor Help
You; Patients Involved in Healthcare

The Role of Patient Engagement in Error Prevention

coincides
with Patient Safety Awareness Week, which aims to encourage patient and family
participation in reducing misdiagnosis by improving communication and sharing
information.

“PULSE of NY has been educating
the public about patient safety practices since 1996,” says Ilene Corina,
President and founder of the grassroots organization. “Now we hope members of
the public will hear from national leaders on the subject, and change their
behavior to avoid misdiagnosis.”

Speakers include:

Jack Rubenstein MD, FACP,
Medical Director of the Clinical Reasoning Consultation Program, and Associate
Professor of Medicine at the Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine. He is
also a founding member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

Ronald M. Wyatt, MD, medical
director in the Division of Healthcare Improvement at The Joint Commission. 

Trisha Torrey is "Every
Patient's Advocate," a name she gave herself after a misdiagnosis in 2004
that prompted her career change to patient empowerment and advocacy. Today she
is About.com's patient empowerment guide.

Among the sponsors are the
North Shore LIJ Health System, Pegalis &
Erickson, LLC, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the National Patient
Safety Foundation, and IPRO.

For conference registration, a
full list of sponsors, and more information about the event, please visit www.patientsafetypartners.org.