News | January 8, 2013

Healthcare Team Training (HTT) And Datix – A Powerful Combination For Improving Patient Safety

Healthcare Team Training (HTT), a global provider of services focused on improving patient safety, satisfaction and quality, and Datix, a leading supplier of patient safety software solutions, announce their collaboration to use enterprise event reporting and risk management systems to improve quality and enhance operational efficiency.

Datix offers patient safety software for healthcare risk management, incident reporting and adverse event reporting. The Datix application is highly configurable and provides sophisticated trend analysis and metric-driven dashboards. HTT is known worldwide for its expertise and proven results in delivering and implementing team-based patient safety solutions.

The collaboration between Datix and HTT leverages the successful Datix event reporting software with proven HTT patient safety focused implementation methods for improving usability, team performance and, ultimately, patient safety culture.

“We are excited to add the Datix software suite to our healthcare improvement services in the US market,” stated HTT Chief Executive Officer Stephen Powell. “Datix is a superior software solution that is needed in US hospitals to reduce patient harm, drive continuous improvement and support a proactive safety culture. Our human-centric approach to implementation will maximize software utilization and productivity from day one.”

“Datix has been a pioneer in patient safety for many years and aims to help healthcare organizations build a culture and practice to drive excellence in patient safety,” said Jonathan Hazan, Chief Executive at Datix. “Datix has customers all over the world and our community has benefited from new approaches drawn from best practice in disparate healthcare systems. We look forward to working with HTT in the US to improve patient safety through the use of technology.”

HTT and Datix’s powerful combination of products and services will provide innovative systems and solutions for reporting, analyzing, managing and mitigating adverse events that lead to patient harm. This flexible, simple-to-use system collects and converts independent patient safety, quality care, and patient feedback data into real-time information that improves decision-making and prioritizes improvement resources while encouraging team collaboration and coordination.

About Healthcare Team Training (HTT)
HTT is a global provider of team-based learning, training and consulting aimed at improving patient safety, quality, the patient experience and staff satisfaction. Our solutions-based learning creates high reliability teams able to achieve adaptable, flexible and sustainable change. Our foundational methods and processes are built upon our extensive experience with over 200 organizations worldwide in the civilian and government healthcare sectors. HTT is headquartered in Fayetteville, GA. For more information, visit www.healthcareteamtraining.com.

About Datix
Datix has been a pioneer in the field of patient safety since 1986 and is a leading supplier of software for patient safety, risk management, incident and adverse event reporting. Datix aims to help healthcare organizations build a culture and practice that drives excellence in patient safety. Its customers include health systems, public and private hospitals, government agencies, primary care, and other healthcare providers. Internationally, the Datix client base is growing rapidly with large scale deployments in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and the Middle East.  Within the UK, this includes more than 70% of the National Health Service. Datix has offices in Chicago. For more information, visit www.datix.co.uk

Source: Healthcare Team Training