Chasing Zero

TMIT Global Patient Safety Documentaries

TMIT Global is driving production of multimedia development of stories to improve patient safety in hospitals. Certain broadcast programs will be shown globally, and then will be made available to hospital leadership and front-line performance teams. Stories will include consumers, front-line caregivers, clinical and non-clinical leaders of hospitals, and international subject matter experts. The series of “arc to action” stories will be told to inspire both community and hospital leaders to act locally.

The goal is to save lives, save money, and deliver value to the community through extraordinary impact by improving ordinary things.

View the entire 53-minute documentary below. Please note: best viewed in full-screen mode.

View the trailer for Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

National Press Club: April 12, 2010: Dennis Quaid referred to the documentary in his speech. Click here to view the video of the National Press Club speech.

Click here for terms and conditions of use for Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm documentary and the Hospital Leaders Toolbox.

Trailers and summaries of additional and upcoming documentaries in this series:

Surfing The Healthcare Tsunami

Healing Moments

Greatness By Accident

Chasing Zero^® is a registered trademark of CareFusion Corporation.

Key
Themes
- TMIT-Discovery Patient Safety Documentary Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm
  We are creating inspirational documentaries highlighting "extraordinary impact through ordinary things." They will be hosted by movie actor Dennis Quaid, who will use the story of his twins’ near-fatal medical error as a way of engaging audiences. A series of short "arc to action" stories will be told. Each story will open with a challenge and then tell how caregivers overcome such challenges with practices that everyone can adopt. The target demographics are consumers and hospital leaders. The objective will be to inspire the audience to act in their own communities or at their own hospitals. What:
  - A made-for-TV documentary, 55 minutes long and entitled Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm, is being shown four times globally beginning April 2010 on the main Discovery Channel. After it has aired, a commercial-free DVD will be produced and distributed for free to all U.S. hospitals by TMIT, and will be sent to the chairmen of the governance boards and their CEOs. A second hour of content composed of digital short stories and concept messages will be added to the DVD.
  - Once the broadcast version has been aired and DVDs are distributed, access to additional media will be made available through the TMIT and Discovery websites.
  - Topics include leadership, medication management, healthcare-associated infections, health-information technologies, and high performance solutions.
  Who:
  - Terrific front-line caregivers, subject matter experts, and leaders who are wonderful role models from healthcare, government, community, and quality organizations will tell their stories.
  - The consumer target audience for the documentary are CFOs – the "Chief Family Officers" in our communities: women between 20 and 70 years of age, who make more than 70% of the healthcare decisions in America. One in four citizens is caring for someone else, and 80% of the caregivers are women.
  - The hospital leadership audience members are governance board members, administrative leaders, and clinical leaders dealing with today’s challenges of investing in patient safety in the face of shrinking resources.
  - The funders of the documentary include GE Healthcare and the Denham Family Fund.
  When:
  - The global premiere was in Nice, France, on April 22, 2010, at the Nice Acropolis during the International Forum hosted by the BMJ Group and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
  Why:
  - Most patient safety documentaries and stories delivered through mass media either provide a very depressing and sobering picture of U.S. healthcare, or highlight technological breakthroughs that are unavailable for front-line hospitals. This documentary is intended to be a call to action for everyone by providing real-world opportunities to improve today, rather than to wait until tomorrow.
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Continuing
Education
- Click here to go to the Discovery Channel CME site, where you can obtain information on earning CME credit, download the test questions before watching the documentary, and take the online test.
  
  Check back for links to continuing (nursing) education credits (CE/CNE) for this program – offered by the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) and the American Association of Critical-care Nurses (AACN).
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Viewer
Response
- TMIT-Discovery Patient Safety Documentary
  Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm
  
  From a Patient Safety Leader:
  
  Quaid it seems, has found a new purpose in his life, a purpose which is irresistible to anyone of us who stops for a moment to consider the implications of the type of complexity (and danger) which faces our patients. This one hour view seen in 4 segments is simply the best type of production of its kind that any of us have ever seen, featuring many of the top leaders within the patient safety movement, as well as patients and family members who have been harmed by the care delivered to them. We think it will provide the perfect backdrop for the other things we hope to raise up that week.
  
  Patient Safety Leader Front-line Hospital System
  
  From Consumer in Community:
  
  This program was absolutely riveting. It was a perfect balance of stories and information for those of us who do not understand healthcare. Now I know what I can do to keep my family safe. My questions is: why don't we have more movies like this? Why do we always see the bad and never the good? This movie makes me proud of my caregivers and makes me want to talk to my local hospital leaders to get them moving. I don't need advertising. I need safety for my family. Congratulations to CareFusion, AORN, and TMIT for funding this and to Dennis Quaid for sharing his passion and life with us. I know he does not have to do it.
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Chasing Zero
Programs

TMIT is undertaking a number of market channels initiatives with major healthcare stakeholders to deliver integrated programs of national meetings, webinars, and co-development efforts to affect patient safety leveraging documentary and Toolbox assets:

Medicare Chasing Zero Programs:

The Chasing Zero documentary has been distributed to 1,000 leaders of the Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and offered as training resources. For speeches and transcripts of the Dec. 1, 2011, program, click here.
A series of four webinars will be held for the national community that will help QIOs and their hospitals to improve in patient safety: Engaging Hospital Boards, Engaging Patients and Families, Engaging Suppliers as Performance Partners, and Engaging Purchasers as Performance Partners.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Chasing Zero Programs:

The Chasing Zero documentary was distributed to BCBS leaders of the 39 healthcare plans and 60 companies at their national meeting. DVDs are being made available for distribution to the hospitals they work with in all 50 states and three territories. Blue Cross Blue Shield healthcare plans purchase care for 100 million covered lives and spend $500 billion.
A video entitled Ground Zero: The Boardroom, Not the Bedside is a call to action for governance boards to use Chasing Zero for board retreats. It is now streaming on the BCBSA website. See link for various versions of the video. BCBSA plans will be invited to participate in the national webinar. For background resources, click here.

AORN Collaboration and Chasing Zero Programs:

The documentary and the Chasing Zero Leaders Toolbox, comprising more than 2-1/2 hours of content, is provided on DVD and on the TMIT website. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and CareFusion, a healthcare innovation supplier company, provided educational grants for the Chasing Zero documentary and Leaders Toolbox. They will be undertaking regional programs across the USA to help nursing and patient safety programs use the content and additional educational content to accelerate patient safety. See links for their organizations and watch for future links for their Chasing Zero programs: AORN and CareFusion.

WHO Chasing Zero Relationship:

The Chasing Zero documentary included segments from Zurich and video clips from meetings at the WHO headquarters. Sue Sheridan and Dr. David Bates are both leaders of WHO initiatives, and were both in the initial documentary. Their WHO programs will be highlighted in a global version of Chasing Zero. The Chasing Zero Leaders Toolbox will be made available to leaders of 193 countries once a global version is completed. See Sue Sheridan's work at WHO by clicking here: Patients for Patient Safety Improvement; and Dr. Bates’s work at WHO by clicking here: WHO Patient Safety Research Priorities.

Discovery Chasing Zero Relationship:

The Chasing Zero documentary was originally broadcast to 3.4 million viewers. The continuing education program offered by Discovery may be taken at DiscoveryCME. The Chasing ZeroLeaders Toolbox will provided to those seeking copies of the documentary from Discovery. TMIT and Discovery are in discussions about a series of documentaries following the same framework of a one-hour broadcast, with a DVD Leaders Toolbox to be distributed to follow it. A global version of Chasing Zero is being contemplated. Watch this webpage for updates.

Global Patient Safety Forum Chasing Zero Programs:

The Global Patient Safety Forum is a global convening initiative of TMIT focusing on accelerating patient safety innovations along the entire healthcare value chain. It is coordinating the energies of the leading quality, certifying, and purchasing organizations, as well as stakeholders such as suppliers, providers, and governments. The goal is to break down the barriers and leverage the accelerators of innovation adoption. The Chasing Zero documentary, Leaders Toolbox, and global versions of the documentary and series of TMIT documentaries will be used to drive the GPSF mission. Click here to see Global Chasing Zero program.

Global Patient Safety Summits and Chasing Zero Programs:

A global meeting of hospital leaders and quality experts from around the world was convened in Nice, France, in April 2010. The volcanic eruption in Iceland prevented many participants from coming, however TMIT held a Virtual Summit over the internet that enabled 95% of the planned content to be delivered and captured. Click here to view the material. The speakers and attendees had such a great experience creating the program that they have joined to put on a series of virtual and on-site summits during 2011 and 2012. Click here for the schedule and plans. The Chasing Zero documentary will be either re-edited as a global version for these programs or will be replaced by an entirely new documentary with global perspectives.

Collaborator Organizations Certain high performance organizations have been and will be contributors to the TMIT Greenlight Program and our documentaries. Click on their logos below to view highlights of their participation.

TMIT Global Patient Safety Documentaries

Chasing Zero® is a registered trademark of CareFusion Corporation.

Collaborator Organizations

Chasing Zero^® is a registered trademark of CareFusion Corporation.