Role of the Media to Advance Patient Safety Panel
Channel: Patient Safety Movement
Date: 2019-01-23

How is the media involved in the campaign for zero preventable deaths? How can clinicians and journalists acknowledge their expertise and assets in the fight for zero and work together? The Media Panel at the annual Summit includes: Jim Messina, CEO of the Messina Group, Elizabeth Aguilera, Reporter for CALmatters, Jamie King, actor and patient advocate, Shaun Lintern, Senior Patient Safety Correspondent for Health Service Journal, Jayne O'Donnell, Healthcare Policy Reporter for USA Today, and Spencer Woodman, reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. A common theme throughout this panel is bridging the individual with the system of clinicians in order to promote transparency and a candor attitude to ensure that the same mistakes don't happen twice, if at all. In addition, members of the team emphasize the idea of a duty of candor within hospitals.