Patient safety is a new health care
discipline that highlights and helps in prevention, reduction, analyzing
and reporting of medical errors that frequently leads to adverse health
care events and risk management. The risk management and patient safety
team work closely with clinical teams and other corporate areas in
finding the risks, acting as a resource and giving support on all
aspects of risk management. Since patient safety is new area for
emphasis in health care, awareness to reduce occurrence of medical
errors is gaining impetus. Quality up gradation in health care
organizations are emphasizing more on patient safety and risk management
and finding means to work efficiently and effectively and also to
ensure that they deliver fine-quality patient care.
The patient safety and risk management software market is segmented on the basis of its mode of delivery, by product type, by its end-users and by geography. On the basis of mode of delivery the patient safety and risk management software market is segmented into cloud based software, on-premise and web based software. On the basis of product type it is segmented as standalone software and integrated software. By end users, it is segmented into hospitals, long term care centers and health care firms.
Due to rise in need to follow regulatory
guidelines, increasing need to curb growing health care costs,
frequencies of medical errors and various government edges to encourage
the use of health care IT across has given a boost to the patient safety
and risk management software market. WHO and several governments
globally are taking initiatives in leading the patient safety campaigns
so as to increase awareness among the patient population. Also, several
health care IT companies have come up with innovative IT solutions that
ensure patient safety. But high implementation cost and lack of in house
IT domain knowledge and data security are some of the issues that are
restricting the growth of this market during the forecast period from
2016-2024. In addition, lack of skilled IT professionals in hospitals,
use of old technologies and poor regulatory standards are also some the
reasons that might hamper the growth of patient safety and risk
management software market.'
Geographically, patient safety and risk management software market is segmented as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa. North America and Europe dominates the global patient safety and risk management in healthcare, followed by Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East & Africa. Developing markets in Asia Pacific and Latin America are awakening to this concept as one of the major focus areas. The necessity to improve quality management and outcomes in care delivery environments, have strengthened the health care providers to gauge and select more sophisticated IT solutions in the region. Thus, owing to the above mentioned factors the patient safety and risk management software market is expected to grow in Asia Pacific and Latin American region.
The major companies having presence in
the global patient safety and risk management software market are
CareFusion Corporation, Datix Limited, Health Catalyst, MetricStream,
Inc., MRM Group LLC, RL Solutions, Salus Global Corporation, Quintiles,
Inc. and The Patient Safety Company. To sustain in the market companies
are spending more on the software development and in creating a more
sophisticated IT health care. Some of the organizations are integrating
their patient safety, quality functions and risks into department or
institute. Some are taking advantages of using the legal protections
allowed by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act and also from
existing state protections. These protections offer a structure to
distinguish between overlapping and common patient safety activities of
quality and risk which is carried within a legally safe environment.
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