Editorial: Is provision of safe and quality care equivalent to high-tech care?

The modern day health care has become far more sophisticated, technologically advanced, super specialized, yet it has also become far more risky in terms of potential harm to the patients. the institute for healthcare improvement estimates there are 15 million incidents of medical harm each year in the united states of america. researchers at the harvard school of medicine have found that even today, about 18 percent of patients in hospitals are injured during the course of their care and that many of those injuries are life-threatening, or even fatal.