Introduction to FMEA for Healthcare

Introduction to FMEA for Healthcare:

This workshop offers a tested and organized method for proactively reducing clinical risk. The FMEA for Healthcare fulfils the risk management standards of JCI (Joint Commission International) accreditation. It’s an excellent way for all clinical professionals to cultivate a proactive safety culture by mastering these techniques.

Why FMEA is Needed?

• Healthcare is a complex environment due to multi-faceted disease processes, as well as medical staff, equipment, infrastructure, organizational policies, and procedures.
• It is a risky business due to the dependence on human functions.
• The prevention of medical errors is a crucial part of ensuring quality care and patient safety.
• FMEA is a valuable reliability management tool that can pre-emptively identify the potential failures of a system and assess their causes and effects, thereby preventing them from occurring.
• The use of FMEA in healthcare has become increasingly popular over the last decade, being applied to a multitude of different areas.

Comparison Among Various Tools

Objective of the Workshop

• Encourage staff to help reduce clinical risks across the system.
• Enhance patient safety and service quality by streamlining medical procedures.
• Offer structured FMEA training in healthcare to equip participants with proactive safety management skills.
• Meet the Proactive Risk Assessment Standard for healthcare accreditation.
• Foster a safety-focused culture by equipping a large number of professionals with this method for continuous risk reduction.

Contents

1. Choose a Process with High Risk 
2. Form the Team 
3. Visually Represent the Process 
4. Perform the Analysis 
5. Enumerate the Failure Modes 
6. Assess Severity & Likelihood 
7. Employ the Decision Tree 
8. Catalog all Causes of Failure Modes 
9. Determine Actions and Metrics for Outcomes
10. Case Examples

FMEA Support

When executed correctly, a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) can be a powerful tool for reducing the likelihood of expensive failures in healthcare service. However, if an FMEA is not carried out correctly, it can become a costly time sink.

Many hospitals struggle to initiate and sustain FMEAs, often due to misconceptions about their use and maintenance for new processes. Resource constraints can also necessitate FMEA Support. SSI offers FMEA Facilitation and Consultancy to help organizations advance in their application of FMEA in hospital care processes.