Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

This HealthLeaders article introduces the 4Ms and explores some of the benefits of the framework, spotlighting the work and results achieved at Anne Arundel Medical Center.

June 13, 2019 | Are there financial benefits to being an Age-Friendly Health System? Learn about the potential to unlock cost savings and generate new revenue, all while providing safer, more appropriate care for older adults.

May 30, 2019 | Health care needs to create safer processes for acute pain management. But what roles should patients play in this? A new IHI report provides reccomendations to sharpen acute pain management strategies in your health system.

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This article in Harvard Business Review Online by Kate Hilton and Alex Anderson spotlights how the McLeod Regional Health System in Florence, South Carolina, overcame resistance to employing a surgical checklist.

This Health Affairs blog post by Lown Institute’s Shannon Brownlee and John A. Hartford Foundation’s Terry Fulmer discusses the topic of medication overload.

This article in Today’s Practitioner uses a Game of Thrones theme to discuss health care today and mentions the Triple Aim: bettering patient experience, reducing per capita costs, and improving population health.

This article in Fierce Healthcare on what the Avengers can teach healthcare mentions IHI’s aim to fundamentally change the way we think and practice healthcare across the country.

Len Berry co-authored this piece in Harvard Business Review about the need for clinicians and their institutions to reclaim healing as a core aim.

Gary Kaplan mentions the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in this Modern Healthcare article about Virginia Mason’s “war on waste.”