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AMA, Brigham and Women's, Joint Commission target equity, quality & safety

Healthcare It News

health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. The goal of the Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network – which offers a year-long mentorship and networking program – is to improve health outcomes for historically marginalized populations.

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Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. IHI’s Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit includes the tools and templates you need to launch a successful quality improvement project and manage performance improvement. Then open and use that version of the tool.

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Enhancing Quality Improvement Adoption in US Nursing Homes 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated and illuminated quality failings in nursing homes, persistent equity issues, and the system- and policy-level factors that contribute to their endurance.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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Spread and scale – what’s the difference?

Life Qi

The NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub’s document 'The spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare,' states that ‘Across the UK, a third of healthcare improvement projects never spread beyond their particular unit, a further third are embedded within their own unit and spread across an organisation, and a final third are spread (..)

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Don Berwick

Life Qi

In this, the final article in our series on Quality Improvement (QI) heroes – we shine a spotlight on Dr Don Berwick, leading authority on QI in healthcare and founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

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Driver Diagram: Advantages and disadvantages

Life Qi

In its ‘Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit’ the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) describes driver diagrams as ‘a roadmap for achieving the overall project aim.’ Driver diagrams can be used to plan improvement project activities and represent a key element of QI projects.