AI-Driven Near Miss Reporting: An Early Warning System for Patient Safety

Near misses happen every day in healthcare, but they’re vastly underreported—representing countless lost opportunities to prevent patient harm. The challenge is clear: manual reporting takes too much time, leading to incomplete visibility into safety risks. RLDatix Chief Patient Safety and Risk Officer Tim McDonald, MD, JD examines how generative AI can transform near miss reporting, reducing reporting time from 10 minutes to seconds while giving hospital leaders the data they need to predict and prevent adverse events…