A New Prescription for Saving Lives

In a groundbreaking report titled, "To Err is Human," the Institute of Medicine reported, an estimated 98,000 people die in the United States annually as a result of medical errors. This number is staggering when compared with deaths caused by high profile antecedents, such as motor vehicle accidents (43,458) and breast cancer (42,297). A vast number of these medical errors are being attributed to poor business systems and failures in the flow of information.