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Innovation Submissions
How it works
1. Submit
Submit responses to a few questions regarding your innovation.
2. Review
Our team will review your submission and follow up if any additional information is required.
3. Decision
You will receive notification within 4-6 weeks regarding whether your innovation has been selected to be highlighted on PSNet.
What You Need to Know
- Applicable to US healthcare setting
- Grounded in patient safety
- May improve the process with or without improving patient outcomes if the innovation dramatically improves patient care delivery; however, must not have a negative effect on patients
- Practical, efficient, timely, and cost effective (e.g., impact on patient safety outcomes outweigh the investment to implement)
- Applicable and scalable to other sites
- Employing tools or systems that are not proprietary/commercial
- Implemented at a single site (e.g., patient care setting, unit, department) are acceptable, however multi-site innovations will be prioritized
- Implemented at the facility, system, regional, or state level
- Willingness to be contacted via email with questions about your innovation
Browse Innovation Examples
Vanderbilt University Medical Center developed an electronic trigger tool that alerts the care team of unrelated abnormal findings and provides a companion follow-up process, with the goal of improving communication of radiologic abnormalities. The first 13 months of... Read More
UNC Health is a nonprofit healthcare system of more than 500 clinics and 16 hospitals in North Carolina. In early 2021, it developed an innovation to reduce health disparities by screening patients for... Read More
The Rescue Improvement Conference (RIC)1 was designed at the University of Michigan to address failure to rescue with a particular focus on communication and complication management. Failure to rescue typically refers to a health system’s slow or... Read More
Retained surgical items (RSIs) cause severe yet preventable patient harm. RSIs are the most common category of surgical never events.1 An RSI occurs when a needle, sponge, or surgical instrument is unintentionally left... Read More
