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- Dockside to Bedside: A New Paradigm for Health System Medication Management
- As provider organizations pursue BPOC (bar code enabled point-of-care) technologies, they should evaluate the drug distribution companies' abilities to provide value in designing a best practice model for a more efficient, safe, and cost-effective medication supply chain. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates the United States could cut 15 to...
- White papers 2004-06-29
- Move Your Dot: Measuring, Evaluating, and Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates
- Move Your Dot is an effort to help hospitals know more about their organizational performance as it relates to mortality. A new statistical methodology has been developed to standardize hospital mortality rates in order to fairly compare them. Further, a simple analytical tool has been developed to help hospitals evaluate...
- White papers 2003-03-26
- Transforming Care at the Bedside
- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI, in partnership with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation RWJF, has launched a comprehensive effort to improve care on hospital medical/surgical units. In 13 pilot hospitals, change ideas within each category are being tested, refined, and implemented, many with very promising early results. Examples include...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Improving the Reliability of Health Care
- Reliability principles are used successfully in industries such as manufacturing and air travel to help evaluate, calculate, and improve the overall reliability of complex systems. Reliability principles, used to design systems that compensate for the limits of human ability, can improve safety and the rate at which a system consistently...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates (Part 2)
- Health care in the US is known to be highly variable in quality. One particularly troubling manifestation of this problem is the wide range of mortality rates in US hospitals. Mortality rates in US hospitals vary widely when calculated in a standardized way. Systematic analysis of hospital deaths can reveal...
- White papers 2005-06-17
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Pursuing Perfection is an international initiative, working with high performing healthcare organisations to move beyond the current quality of healthcare and generate new improvement knowledge for widespread dissemination. It began in the US in 2001 and is being supported in the UK by the NHS Modernisation Agency. The health and...
- White papers 2004-04-05
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- Premier Teleconference to Discuss Risk, Safety and the Improvement of Outcomes in Obstetrics; Event to Focus on Documented Results from Partnership with The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Ascension Health
- CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Premier Inc. healthcare alliance will host a national teleconference on Wednesday, August 30, from 2-3 p.m. EST, entitled "Improving Outcomes in the Obstetrics Suite: Risk and Safety Implications." The teleconference will focus on findings from the Premier/Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI Perinatal Innovation Workgroup, a collaboration...
- Research articles 2006-08-29
- Healthcare Industry Labors Mightily, Brings Forth a Mouse
- Three weeks ago, a coalition of health industry groups reportedly told President Obama they could cut $2 trillion in healthcare spending over 10 years. A few days later, the American Hospital Association and America’s Health Insurance Plans appeared to be backpedaling, saying that cutting the annual spending growth rate by...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- QUALITY HEALTHCARE CAN BE COST-EFFECTIVE.
- Quality only seems expensive, say leaders of the healthcare improvement movement. In reality it can save money and enhance the economic viability of your hospital or health system, they say. The trick is to make sure the improved outcomes accrue to the bottom line. ...
- Research articles 1999-01-18
- Healthcare Roundup: MedPac and Hospitals, E-prescribing Savings, IT Worker Shortage, and More
- MedPAC to hospitals: Suck it up - Although hospitals nationwide have seen their average margins go negative, Medicare is still paying them enough, says Glenn Hackbarth, chairman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission MedPAC. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hackbarth did not dispute a projection that the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Ideas for Achieving Higher Reliability in Healthcare
- Without providing an in-depth analysis of HRO High Reliability Organizations theory and all its complexities, a high reliability organization can be broadly defined as one that experiences fewer than normal accidents despite an inherently "risky" environment. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement proposed this definition of reliability in healthcare: The...
- White papers
- Cerner Technology to Support Participation in IHI's 100,000 Lives Campaign; Healthcare IT Leader Supports Effort to Reduce Hospital Mortality Rates
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In an effort to support clients participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign, Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ: CERN) announces its commitment to provide the necessary tools to monitor and capture vital information from hospitals and health networks.
- Research articles 2005-12-13
- 3M Applauds IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign for Heightening National Awareness of Hospital Infections and Saving Lives
- ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Joining the groundswell of support for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign, 3M applauds this milestone "best practices" initiative to prevent thousands of avoidable deaths from infection.
- Research articles 2006-06-14
- Berwick: Hospitals Are Still Aboard The Quality Train
- At a time when survival is on the mind of every hospital executive, are healthcare leaders letting up on quality improvement? Not according to Donald Berwick, president of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which has long led the charge for hospital quality and safety. He said that there’s a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Thought Leaders Propose Health Reforms, But Will They Work?
- When three preeminent thought leaders like Elliott Fisher, Donald Berwick, and Karen Davis submit a joint proposal for healthcare reform, attention must be paid. Fisher, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, has coauthored seminal papers about practice variations across the U.S.; Berwick is the president of the Institute for Healthcare...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Healthcare Roundup: Surgical Checklist Surges, Rockefeller Cues EHR Mandate, Health Plan Enrollment Drops, ASCs Suck Straw, and More
- Good start for safety measure â€" In January, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement announced that it was trying to get all U.S. hospitals to test a surgical checklist by April 1. The checklist for ORs and surgeons has been shown to reduce complications and mortality. Although only 622 hospitalsâ€"about 10...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Pledges $3 Million to Improve Patient Safety in Massachusetts
- BOSTON -- In support of its ongoing commitment to health care improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts BCBSMA has announced that the company will pledge $3 million to Massachusetts hospitals and to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI, a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the...
- Research articles 2004-12-14
- Simple checklist saves lives in the operating room, study finds
- A simple operating-room checklist, similar to the one pilots use in the cockpit before takeoff, has been credited with dramatically reducing complications and even saving lives - sparking calls for widespread use in Canadian hospitals by summer. A New England Journal of Medicine study of 7,688 patients in eight hospitals,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- IHI Launches Surgical Checklist Campaign
- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which has been in the vanguard of the patient safety movement for many years, is trying to get all U.S. hospitals to test the World Health Organization’s surgical checklist in at least one OR between now and April 1. While IHI doesn’t believe that a...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Hospital CEO Pay Comes Under Scrutiny
- Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has stepped up his criticism of not-for-profit hospitals by slamming what he regards as the high salaries paid to hospital CEOs. He told The Boston Globe that he is planning to introduce legislation to address the issue. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
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