Gestaltungskompetenz as an Innovator for High Reliability Organizations in the Healthcare System (GIO)

GIO – Creating sustainable innovative patient safety

Considering recurring unwanted incidents, the topic of patient safety in healthcare provision is not only in the persistent focus of the media, the extent of these incidents is also visible in unpleasant statistics. The causes for hospital related health threads are very divers and the reasoning is often based on the complex interactions between personnel, technical or organizational circumstances.

The goal of the research project GIO is to establish a sustainable safety culture in the healthcare system. For this purpose, a new approach is being developed which incorporates the characteristics of high reliability organizations and patient safety with the concept of “Gestaltungskompetenz”.