Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

5 Strategies for Quality Improvement Success

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IHI has developed a QI Project Management Tool to help health systems and other healthcare organizations implement quality improvement initiatives. This article features commentary from Karen Baldoza and Christina Gunther-Murphy, and summarizes the fiv…

10 Principles of Radical Redesign of the Healthcare System

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The current environment for clinicians is “a tough time”, according to Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who spoke at the annual RSNA conference in Chicago on Nov. 26. Under press…

Health and Health Care Quality Improvers from 56 Countries Gather for IHI’s 30th National Forum

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Longest-running gathering on health care quality unveils new resources to broaden and strengthen strategies to improve health and patient care

Blueprint for Complex Care

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This publication assesses the current state of the complex care field and presents actionable recommendations and a common framework for collectively advancing care delivery for individuals with complex health and social needs.

Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality

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This white paper presents an actionable framework with the core processes needed for effective governance of all dimensions of quality; an assessment tool; and support guides for three central knowledge areas for governance of quality.

Prominent Speakers Offer Lessons for Health and Health Care Quality Innovators

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2018 Forum Sessions available via livestream broadcast

US Hospitals Ignore Improving Elder Care. That’s a Mistake.

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In the 21st century, health care is to elderhood as education is to childhood. But we don’t see bond measures for the “construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping” of hospitals to optimize care of old people, an investment that would surely bene…

At Swedish’s Neuroscience Unit, Some Staff See a Better Culture; CEO Vows More Improvements

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CVS Health Launches Effort to Make MinuteClinics More Senior Friendly

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Retail pharmacy chain CVS Health wants to provide care that is specifically tailored to older adults in its MinuteClinic locations. To do so, CVS Health is partnering with one of the top-ranked research universities in the United States and plans to dr…

Foundation Funding for Patient Safety

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The National Steering Committee for Patient Safety met for the first time in May 2018. Convened by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), it aims to “develop a national blueprint to reduce patient harms” and “continue the quest to eliminate pa…