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IHI Research and Development Process

 

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) needed a quick way to research innovative ideas and assess their potential for advancing quality improvement. The method developed — what IHI refers to as a 90-Day R&D Project — is designed to produce innovation in a reliable and efficient manner, bringing new ideas to action.

 

Read more about IHI's 90-Day R&D Process

 

What's New from IHI's R&D


 
 

Thomas W. Nolan, PhD

Tom W. Nolan, PhD
"When a student asked W. Edwards Deming how a complex organization should approach the improvement of quality, he answered: 'There is no substitute for knowledge.' The system is more complex and the problems more intractable than almost anybody predicted."  (See Commentary.)
 
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Executing for System-Level Results


 

 

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Increasing Efficiency and Enhancing Value in Health Care white paper

Increasing Efficiency and Enhancing Value in Health Care: Ways to Achieve Savings in Operating Costs per Year


IHI Innovation Series white paper

This white paper proposes a set of steps health care organizations can undertake to systematically identify and eliminate inefficiencies to create a portfolio of work leading to a 1 percent to 3 percent savings in operating costs per year. Methods for developing a balanced portfolio of projects and for calculating and tracking cost savings are also described.

 

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Execution of Strategic Improvement Initiatives to Produce System-Level Results

IHI Innovation Series white paper

Achieving results at the system or organizational level requires will at all levels, but especially the will of top management to make a new way of working attractive and the status quo uncomfortable. This white paper proposes a framework for execution of strategic initiatives aimed at producing system-level results.


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Engaging Physicians in a Shared Quality Agenda

IHI Innovation Series white paper

This white paper presents a framework for building a written plan for physician engagement in quality and safety. It includes tools to help hospital leaders assess the degree of difficulty in engaging physicians and to prioritize initiatives for which physician engagement is essential.

 

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Related Information


The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

 

In the late 1990s, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick dared to apply the concepts of "quality improvement" used at Toyota and NASA to the practice of medicine. This book tells their story, and how these "heretical" ideas have blossomed into a movement.

 

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