“The bowtie methodology steers the team during risk analysis and results in easy to understand diagrams”

Tilcentrum took their risk assessment to the next level with BowTieXP

Assess healthcare compliance

Monitor systems and assess healthcare compliance, e.g: NTA 8009:2011.

Complement HFMEA

Complement Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis to gain deeper understanding of risks.

Proactive risk assessment

Prospective risk inventory: identify and analyze risks up front.

Some of our healthcare clients

Barrier based risk management in healthcare

It is not sufficient to merely identify risks when it comes to healthcare. Risks need to be analyzed and appropriate safety measures need to be identified and monitored.

The bowtie methodology complements risk identification methods like HFMEA studies and provides a deeper understanding of your risk. Some questions that need to be answered are:

  • Do we have enough (or too many) safety measures?
  • Can we focus more on hardware or systems, instead of procedures?
  • Do we know who is accountable for our safety measures?
  • Are the safety measures as adequate and reliable as we thought they would be?

An increasing number of health care organizations are using the bowtie methodology for analyzing, monitoring and communicating their risks.

Case studies

Learn how other clients used our software products to improve safety across the organization.

  • Tilcentrum
  • AMC - Tripod-beta helpt AMC leren van incidenten
  • Tilcentrum (in Dutch)

Projects that benefit the industry

Some of our partners took our BowTieXP software to the next level and initiated projects to benefit the entire industry.

Patient safety bowties

Ed Janssen Risk Management Consultancy, 9Lives, CGE Risk Management Solutions

Patient safety bowties

This project was set up with the goal of introducing the bowtie risk assessment method into healthcare and to offer encouragement to healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, when performing a proactive risk assessment.

The BowTies developed as part of this project are based on 10 relevant and recognizable patient safety topics. About 1 to 4 example bowties have been developed for each patient safety theme.

Bowtie in de zorg

Ed Janssen Risk Management Consultancy, 9Lives, CGE Risk Management Solutions

Bowtie in de zorg

Dit project is opgezet met als doel bowtie te introduceren in de zorg en inspiratie te bieden voor ziekenhuizen bij het uitvoeren van een PRI met behulp van BowTieXP.

De bowties die als onderdeel van dit project zijn ontwikkeld, zijn gebaseerd op de 10 thema’s van de VMS praktijkgids. Voor elk thema zijn één tot vier bowties ontwikkeld. Verschillende voorbeelden zijn te zien op deze website.

“Confronted with the results of the analysis everybody realized that the incident could as well have happened to themselves.”
Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC), The Netherlands

“Developing the bowtie gave us all a deepening insight into the most important risks involved with using the lift within the Medisch Spectrum Twente.”

MEDD, The Netherlands

Events in the healthcare industry

Looking for an event or training designed for the healthcare industry? Check out one of our events below or the complete Event Calender.

Industry bowties

Some examples of barrier based diagrams in the healthcare industry:

BowTieXP: wrong medication (.jpg)

BowTieXP: NSA failure (in Dutch) (.jpg)

BowTieXP (audit filter): NSA failure (in Dutch) (.jpg)

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