Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 5 Considerations for Making Home Healthcare Safer

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In this interview on IHI’s No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home report, Tejal Gandhi discusses how health care poses its own patient safety challenges that need to be addressed.

New Report Targets Homecare Patient Safety

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This article summarizes the findings and recommendations from IHI’s report, No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home.

IHI Innovation System

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Drawing on IHI’s nearly 30 years of experience with innovation, this white paper provides a detailed description of IHI’s innovation system, including 90-Day Learning and Testing Cycles, and describes how a health care organization might create its own…

HHS Proposes New Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Database

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Commentary from Tejal Gandhi is included in this Modern Healthcare piece examining the new ambulatory surgery center safety database proposed by HHS.

Signal or Noise? Navigating Health Care Policy – Part 2

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This article in NEJM Catalyst contains a video and transcription from part two of a two-part series on the policy roundtable discussion that took place at the 2017 IHI National Forum.​

Health Care Services at Home Outpacing Attention to Safety

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New IHI report offers recommendations for improving the safety of care provided in the home.

WIHI: How to Build Better Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department

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July 12, 2018 | Promising new practices are being tested in hospitals to integrate behavioral health in the emergency department and upstream.​

Signal or Noise? Navigating Health Care Policy – Part 1

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This article in NEJM Catalyst contains a video and transcription from part one of a two-part series on the policy roundtable discussion that took place at the 2017 IHI National Forum.

4 Main Priorities for IHI’s Patient Safety Group

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This article highlights the IHI National Steering Committee for Patient Safety and the group’s four key areas of focus.

The Value of Deploying a Social Determinants Screening Tool in EHR

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This article mentions IHI’s Pursuing Equity collaborative as it relates to social determinants of health screening tools that are currently being developed for Electronic Health Records.