Partnership for Patient Safety is a patient-centered initiative to advance the reliability of healthcare systems worldwide. p4ps® initiates focused partnerships and joint ventures with organizations and individuals that share our core values and objectives of achieving a healthcare system that is authentically patient-centered and systems based.

CHICAGO, July 10, 2012 - Partnership for Patient Safety® is proud to offer a new and unique pay-per-view (PPV) experience: Steven J. Spear, Author & Lecturer, discussing First, Do No Harm® Part 1 - A Case Study of Systems Failure. Spear is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, a Senior IHI Fellow, and has published extensively on the Toyota Production System, Lean and how exceptional organizations create competitive advantage through the strength of their internal operations. His 2009 book, The High Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition, earned a Shingo Research Prize, Spear’s fifth.

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