
A culture of safety is imperative for any health system — patients may not see it, but they will feel it

Timothy McDonald, MD, JD, is the chief patient safety and risk officer for RLDatix and a professor of law at Loyola University – Chicago. He is a Harvard-trained anesthesiologist, pediatrician, licensed attorney, patient safety/medical liability specialist, and author. As the chief patient safety and risk officer for RLDatix, Tim has taken his passion for shattering the wall of silence in healthcare and infused it into our software to better support organizations who are on their journey to more compassionate honesty.

A culture of safety is imperative for any health system — patients may not see it, but they will feel it

New measure will be a monumental step forward away from preventable medical harm and toward better patient care.