(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A free webinar offered by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and scheduled for Wednesday, July 28, 1–2 p.m. CDT, focuses on how a California medical center successfully uses data management to improve medication safety. The webinar presenter, Kalev Golubjatnikov, is patient safety and risk director for Kaiser Permanente’s San Rafael Medical Center in California. He will describe some of the center’s technologies and approaches, including a web-based dashboard to manage data to improve medication safety.

The webinar is sponsored by MIDAS+ Statit Solutions Group, a leader in continuous performance improvement solutions for health care. The webinar will focus on understanding which measurements are important, how to best collect data for measurements, and how the data and measurements should drive improvement initiatives in medication safety performance.  

Medication safety is a primary patient-safety imperative of virtually all health care organizations. For Kaiser Permanente, medication safety is an organizational priority.

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