“Medicine is not made up of just feel-good stories,” said Dr. Christine Tsien Silvers, a healthcare executive adviser at Amazon Web Services. “I’ve cared for patients who my colleagues and I were not able to save, and I’ve seen people make mistakes.”
At the AWS Summit in June in Washington, D.C., she recounted the experience of a pediatric patient who was given the wrong dose of a medication because no one on the care team realized it was written incorrectly. While it’s unclear exactly how many patients die annually because of medical errors, estimates are in the hundreds of…
