At MedStar Health, taking on patient safety has come to look a lot like treating disease.
Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
For Healthcare Innovation We Need to Think Beyond “If We Just Try Harder We’ll Succeed”
Healthcare services can be frustratingly resistant to innovation. At the recent World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Qatar, discussion was focused on how we can change practice within health services in order to improve healthcare.
Expanding the Serious Illness Care Team: The Conversation Nurse Model
The aging of our population, coupled with advances in medical care, has led to people living longer with chronic conditions.
Berwick to Hospitals: Focus More on Health, Less on Reimbursement
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WIHI: Women in Action: Paving the Way for Better Care
December 20, 2018 | Whether it’s blowing the whistle on the dangerous levels of lead in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, championing the healing powers of dance and movement in hospitals, or shining a human spotlight on disease outbreaks throughout t…
Why It’s Crucial to Tap into the ‘Psychology of Change’ to Sustain Quality Improvement Efforts
As providers push quality improvement initiatives, a key part of making those changes stick is emphasizing the human element.
How to Demonstrate the ROI on Quality Improvement Projects
A significant challenge in quality improvement is demonstrating the return on investment.
4 Steps for Successful Complex Care Conferences
For patients with multiple morbidities, multidisciplinary care team meetings can develop valuable approaches to effective treatment.
Getting Health System Boards Engaged in Quality Improvement Is Tricky. IHI Releases New Framework to Help
Tackling quality and safety improvement in healthcare facilities is vitally important. But with its increasing complexity, health system board members may struggle to keep up.
Putting Patients at the Center of Prescribing
Each year in the US, more than 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations result from adverse drug events, studies show, making medication safety one of the most pressing challenges in health care.
To better understand the cause…
