From the President ... Mary Logan
June 2011
Dear AAMI Community,
Last weekend, we broke all records with more than 1,600 people attending the AAMI Annual Conference & Expo in San Antonio! For those of you who participated in some way, thanks so much for your contribution to making this what many described as "the best AAMI annual conference ever." My top 10 list of personal favorite moments were:
- Dr. Bruce Hallbert's keynote on lessons from the nuclear industry—Soundbite excerpts worth remembering include: "It's expensive and wasteful to assess risk one accident at a time." "Most human errors produce latent conditions with no immediate observable consequences . . . [It's those latent conditions plus an active error that result in accidents]." "Root cause analysis should include a look at low consequence/high volume issues . . . It should also include a look at successes . . . We learn from all of them, not just from adverse incidents."
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