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• EBC Agencia Brasil, February 26, 2015: Hospitais Privados Participarão de Projeto de Incentivo ao Parto Normal
  Um projeto-piloto de incentivo ao parto normal vai ser implantado em 20 hospitais privados de todo o país. Os hospitais e as operadoras de planos de saúde interessados têm até o dia 11 de março para aderir ao projeto e até o dia 24 será divulgada a lista dos selecionados. O objetivo é incentivar a redução de cesáreas desnecessárias, que atualmente chegam a 84% dos partos, segundo o Ministério da Saúde.
• BMJ Blogs, February 25, 2015: Building Links with Commissioners, Regulators, and External Partners Around Quality Improvement
  Designed to allow commissioners to reward excellence, CQUINs link the achievement of local quality improvement goals with payment. In recent years the size of the payments linked to these goals has increased and has sometimes resulted in an uncomfortable tension. On the one hand, Trusts want to innovate and improve quality, but on the other the financial repercussions of not meeting these could be significant. This can have a massive impact on how Trusts choose to achieve these targets and consequently the behaviour their approach motivates.
• BMJ Blogs, February 24, 2015: Richard Smith: A Global University for Healthcare Workers
  Massive online open courses (MOOCs) provide an example of large scale online learning as does the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IH) Open School. It was created in 2008 to respond to the problem that many health students received little or no training in the science of improvement and patient safety. So far some 220 000 students have enrolled on courses. The economics of education are changed dramatically by delivering online courses to large numbers, making expensive education much cheaper. Don Berwick, the founder of IHI, also spoke at the World Innovation Summit for Health, and is enthused by Shetty’s vision.
• Healthcare Financial Management Association , February 17, 2015: Experts See U.S. Healthcare System Moving in the Right Direction
  Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains controversial among Congress and the general public, two prominent healthcare thinkers say U.S. health care is moving in the right direction—and that it has a long way to go.
• • Traverse City Record-Eagle, February 17, 2015: Fred Goldenberg: The Conversation Near the End of the Struggle
  A 2013 survey conducted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement through their “Conversation Project” found the following: More than 90 percent of the people think it’s important to talk about their loved ones’ and their own wishes for end-of-life care. Yet less than 30 percent of people have discussed what they or their family wants when it comes to end-of-life care.
• HIT Consultant, February 12, 2015: Can Esther Dyson’s Way to Wellville Challenge Improve Population Health?
  Do you know the way to Wellville? If not, Esther Dyson hopes to point you in the right direction. Dyson, a journalist and technology investor turned wellness enthusiast, is on a mission to better health by rethinking and recreating the environment in which it can thrive. It’s a tall task, but Dyson isn’t doing it alone. In fact, she wants you to take part.
• Becker's Health IT & CIO Review, February 09, 2015: Data Analytics Helps Texas-Based ACO Find Cost Savings in MSSP
  Accurate analysis based on easily verifiable data has been extremely helpful in identifying and reducing costs in the ACO, which up until the platform was adopted, were difficult to determine.
• MedCity News, February 03, 2015: The Hidden Digital Health Opportunities in Obamacare
  Despite over $5 billion in investments in digital health in 2014, there appears to be no correlation between that investment and improved quality of care for patients. This information comes from a recenty study out of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
• Vox, January 29, 2015: Medical Errors in America Kill More People Than AIDS or Drug Overdoses. Here’s Why.
  Medical errors kill more people than car crashes or new disease outbreaks. They kill more people annually than breast cancer, AIDS, plane crashes, or drug overdoses. Depending which estimate you use, medical errors are either the 3rd or 9th leading cause of death in the United States. Those left dead as a result of their medical care could fill an average-sized Major League Baseball stadium — sometimes twice over.
• Forbes, January 29, 2015: Can Business Savvy, Clout And Charisma Supercharge Patient Safety?
  Can the Patient Safety Movement maintain its momentum? It’s a formidable task. When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued its landmark 1999 report declaring that 44,000 to 98,000 patients died each year preventable medical errors in hospitals, it called for deaths to be cut in half in five years. A decade later, studies found hardly any progress. Later research has increased the preventable death estimate to from 210,000 to more than 400,000 individuals annually.
• Quality Digest, January 28, 2015: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Quality Improvement
  Davis Balestracci, a returning presenter at the National Forum, discusses the quality vs. transformation disconnect.
• MS Noticias, January 27, 2015: With 52% pf Cesarean Sections, Brazil Wants to Increase Normal Birth
  To try to change the Brazilian scenario and adapt it to the international recommendation, the NSA, the Ministry of Health, the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and the American NGO Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) signed at the end of October, an agreed technical cooperation to increase the performance of normal deliveries in private hospitals.
• Healthcare Informatics, January 23, 2015: Top Ten Tech Trends: "Clinical Informaticists 2.0"
  What will senior clinical informaticists need going forward? Rock-solid skills and big-picture understandings and leadership capabilities, that’s for certain.
• Behavioral Healthcare, January 22, 2015: More ACOs Look to Behavioral Health
  In an effort to treat the whole patient, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) across the country are finding innovative ways to integrate mental and behavioral healthcare into their programs. While each ACO might approach integration in its own way, experts say the integration of behavioral healthcare in commercial-payer and Medicaid ACOs is only predicted to grow in the years ahead.
• LawyersandSettlements.com, January 22, 2015: 440,000 Deaths Annually from Preventable Hospital Mistakes
  A patient safety study estimates that more than 400,000 American deaths are associated with preventable harm done to patients in hospital settings.
• Hospital News, January 21, 2015: Students as Agents for Change Through Quality Improvement
  Florentina Teoderascu, an IHI Open School student, reflects on her improvement project and storyboard she presented at the 26th Annual National Forum.
• EBC- Agencia Brasil, January 18, 2015: Private Institutions' Initiatives are Reference in Encouraging Normal Delivery
  Actions include 24 hour care by doctors and midwives, the use of resources for pain relief in childbirth, continuing education of staff and encouraging the partner's presence, based on recommendations from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - American organization that works to improve safety and quality in patient care.
• Healthcare IT News, January 14, 2015: Population Health Success Depends on Good Data
  Improved access to care is 'the future' -- but there are big challenges to getting there.
• Healthcare IT News, January 13, 2015: How Hospitals are Tackling Costs in 2015
  2015 is a big year for hospital finances, and many are still facing considerable challenges before they're able to see big changes
• Healthcare IT News, January 12, 2015: Tripling Down on Care Improvement
  "The famous "Triple Aim" framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement seeks to improve the patient experience of care, improve population health and reduce the per capita cost of healthcare. As the industry tries to tackle all three of these huge goals at once, IT – whether it's electronic health records, patient portals, health information exchanges, telemedicine technologies or business intelligence and revenue cycle tools – is instrumental."
• Journal of Emergency Medical Services, January 11, 2015: Reno Roundtable Brings International Look at Community Paramedicine
  At the 10th Annual International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine, attendees were treated to numerous presentations and informational updates. With virtually all presenters making some reference to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim, IRCP organizers shrewdly invited David Williams, PhD, the chief executive and consultant from the Medic Health consulting group to describe community paramedicine and mobile healthcare through the lens of the IHI. Williams is an improvement advisor with the IHI who has worked on several EMS-related improvement projects.
• Politico, January 09, 2015: End-of-Life Instructions Find No Place in Electronic Health Records
  This article examines the cross of end-of-life wishes and electronic health records. IHI's Kelly McCutcheon Adams contributes: “The health care system has to be ready to receive, record and respect people’s end-of-life wishes,“ adding that doctors and hospitals must “steward this information reliably.”
• The Boston Globe, December 26, 2014: Can We Talk About Death?
  This article discusses end-of-life conversations and references Ellen Goodman and her work wtih The Conversation Project.
• EHR Intelligence, December 22, 2014: Debating Viability of Universal Electronic Health Record
  This article debates the viability of using universal electronic health records. IHI's Kedar Mate comments, “The lack of a single health record for each patient that clinicians from all specialties can access in both inpatient and outpatient settings is an obstacle to integrating care. In addition, patient privacy protections inhibit the sharing of health information, creating both perceived and real hurdles.”
• 90.9 WBUR, December 18, 2014: Make Massachusetts’ Criminal Justice System A Model For The Nation
  Massachusetts has many achievements to be proud of, but our criminal justice system is not among them. We are, at best, average among states. Often, we are worse than average on such metrics as rates of incarceration, racial inequities, recidivism, alternatives to prison, rehabilitation, re-entry programs and mandatory sentencing. Let’s end this embarrassment now.
• FierceHealthcare, December 17, 2014: 6 Must-Know Strategies to Build a Safer Hospital
  There's no room for doubt that the healthcare industry needs to improve patient safety, Robert Wachter, M.D., told the audience at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's recent forum on the issue--and he has a few ideas about how to go about it.
• WCVB Boston, December 17, 2014: Rethinking Care at the End of Life
  A pioneer member of the Conversation Ready project, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is developing new ways to reach out to patients, and record, retrieve and respect their wishes about care in their last days.
• Healthcare IT News, December 15, 2014: Q&A: Triple Aim Drives IHI Quality Guru
  Quality care is top of mind for Maureen Bisognano, RN. It has been, ever since she was a young nurse, and developed into a true mission not long later when she worked side by side with Donald Berwick, MD, at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass. Today, she is president and CEO of the organization and Berwick serves as president emeritus and senior fellow. Both delivered keynotes at IHI's 26th Annual National forum last week in Orlando, Fla. The centerpiece of the organization's work on improving care has been its focus on the Triple Aim, the IHI initiative that focuses on improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare.
• Harvard Business Review, December 15, 2014: Antidote to Fragmented Health Care
  Over 200,000 students have taken over two million courses on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Open School, a virtual online school for these improvement methods.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, December 11, 2014: Berwick Pushes Hospitals to Cut Costs for Society's Sake
  In between, the health care quality guru and Institute of Healthcare Improvement fellow had a moment on the mountain in which he came to believe that the healing power of the mind might be the missing element in solving health care's quality problem.
• Tampa Bay Times, December 11, 2014: ‘Shadowing’ Focuses on Patients and Families, Identifies Inefficiencies
  Charlotte Sutton discusses how she met Dr. Anthony DiGioia at the 26th Annual National Forum in Orlando.
• Behavioral Healthcare Magazine, December 10, 2014: IHI Leaders Look for Integration Opportunities
  Structural changes are needed to help bridge the gap between behavioral healthcare and physical healthcare, said Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), speaking at its 26th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, Fla.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, December 10, 2014: From the IHI Forum Floor: Health Care Innovation on the Rise
  Health care officials discussed ways to advance equal care and methods to formalize the innovation process during the first day of this year's Institute for Healthcare Improvement forum.
• AAFP, December 10, 2014: Integrating Mental Health, Primary Care is Focus of IHI Webcast
  "We're past the point of making a case that integration needs to happen," said Mara Laderman, M.S.P.H., senior research associate at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
• WMFE.org, December 09, 2014: Former Scottish NHS Director Touts Health Service Integration
  Derek Feeley, speaking at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s national forum on quality improvement, said the U.S. should blur the lines between health care and social services.
• Modern Healthcare, December 09, 2014: The Hotel Business Can Teach Hospitals How to Put the Customer First
  A behind-the-scenes tour of the Marriott was offered Monday to a group of nearly 50 healthcare professionals attending an excursion at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement conference.
• Not Running a Hospital, December 08, 2014: Behind the Scenes at the World Center Marriott
  Starting with the end of the day first, you see here Melissa Hayes, Regional Director of New York's HELP/PSI Inc. summarizing observations from day-long excursion at the IHI National Forum in which a group of us had a chance to go behind the scenes of the Orlando World Center Marriott.
• Modern Healthcare, December 06, 2014: Safety Leaders to Focus on Measurement Overload
  Emphasis will be placed on providing consistent care in every hospital department, as well as across the continuum of care, and sustaining those gains as new safety measurements are evaluated, said Dr. Don Goldmann, chief medical and science officer for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, whose annual conference is Dec 7-10 in Orlando.
• Boston Globe, December 02, 2014: Medical Errors in Massachusetts Still Common, Study Finds
  A survey commissioned by Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction finds that nearly one-quarter of Massachusetts residents say they, or someone close to them, experienced a mistake in their medical care during the past five years.
• FierceHealthIT, November 25, 2014: Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Frank Federico: Technology Can't Dictate Care
  If implemented well, technology can do great things for healthcare, but providers can't let it dictate how to do their work, says Institute for Healthcare Improvement Executive Director Frank Federico.
• Youth Health Magazine, November 19, 2014: Orlando, FL to hold 26th Annual IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
  The 26th Annual IHI National Forum on quality Improvement in Health Care will be held on December 7 to 10, 2014 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Over 5,000 health care professionals are expected to attend this prestigious event by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent non-profit organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI is a leading partner, innovator, convener, and driver of results in health and health care development worldwide.
• Human Capital Blog, November 18, 2014: The Stuff That Is Killing Us
  Ronald M. Wyatt, MD, MHA, is medical director in the Division of Healthcare Improvement at The Joint Commission. In this role, he promotes quality improvement and patient safety to internal and external audiences, works to influence public policy and legislation for patient safety improvements, and serves as the lead patient safety information and education resource within The Joint Commission. On December 5, RWJF will explore this topic further at its first Scholars Forum: Disparities, Resilience, and Building a Culture of Health. Learn more about it.
• HealthCanal, November 17, 2014: Doing Things Better Without Adding Hours to the Day
  Change is all around us! Thousands of passionate people at St. Michael’s Hospital are working right now on countless projects and initiatives to improve the way they do what they do, while at the same time actually doing their work.
• The Cambridge Chronicle, November 14, 2014: Cambridge’s Conversation Project Sparks Talks About End of Life Choices
  Physicians are traditionally trained to save lives, so they can struggle with letting go when patients are at the end of their lives, and the Conversation Project is an opportunity to get physicians and patients on the same level, according to Trissa Torres, senior vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge.
• Bangor Daily News, November 13, 2014: Teamwork Can Help Maine Achieve Health Care’s Triple Aim
  Developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the initiative outlines an approach to optimizing health care delivery through three parallel tracks: improving the patient experience of care, including quality and satisfaction, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per-capita cost of health care.
• Medscape Medical News, November 10, 2014: New Smart Watch May Improve Hand Hygiene in Hospitals
  The Intermountain smart watch "is one of a half dozen devices that have come to my attention from venture capitalists and people working in hospitals that are designed to serve as devices and even data collection portals for hand hygiene adherence," said Donald A. Goldmann, MD, chief medical and scientific officer for the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
• Region Jaelland, November 05, 2014: US Experts Believe Bridge to Better Health
  Health experts from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, USA have achieved very good experience with improving public health in different environments around the world, for example in urban ghettos and among children throughout Scotland.
• Becker's Hospital Review, November 01, 2014: Hospital ratings: What the Shift From Inpatient to Outpatient Means for Performance Measurement
  The hospital is starting to be thought of as a cost center rather than the center for everything in healthcare, according to Kathy Luther, RN, a vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• The BMJ, October 30, 2014: A Flipped Forward View for Healthcare
  The recent publication of the NHS’s Five Year Forward View by NHS England’s chief executive, Simon Stevens, has been described as “radical” by some reports. One proposal is that general practices would offer many of the services currently confined to hospitals. It is generally agreed that it will be a “huge challenge” to deliver what has been outlined in the five year time scale.
• Skipr, October 30, 2014: Soft Signs Earn Spot in Security
  This method of executive walk rounds was developed in the late nineties by the US Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). By deliberately visiting the workplace, executives have accessible, informal, yet structured contact with professionals and patients.
• Acritica, October 24, 2014: Acordo Pode Reduzir Cesarianas Em Hospitais Particulares
  "Agreement Can Reduce Caesareans in Private Hospitals" The technical cooperation agreement providing for the use of the methodology developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the United States.
• California Healthline, October 22, 2014: 28% of Calif. Hospitals Had Worse-Than-Expected Infection Rates
  About one in 25 hospital patients in the U.S. have a health care-associated infection on any given day, and 75,000 U.S. residents die from hospital-related infections annually, according to KHN. The federal government since 2012 has been publishing hospital-related infection rate analyses on Medicare's Hospital Compare website. In addition, Medicare in the fall will begin factoring hospital-related infection rates into reimbursement payments.
• Kaiser Health News, October 21, 2014: Hospitals’ Struggles To Beat Back Familiar Infections Began Before Ebola Arrived
  While Ebola stokes public anxiety, more than one in six hospitals — including some top medical centers — are having trouble stamping out less exotic but sometimes deadly infections, federal records show.
• Politico Magazine, October 21, 2014: Are Hospitals More Deadly Than Ebola?
  These types of hospital mistakes—caused by knowledge gaps, carelessness, unpreparedness or a combination of all—by my estimate kill between 210,000 and 440,000 people in the United States every year. The numbers indicate that preventable medical errors—from infections to botched surgeries to administration of the wrong medicine—are the third leading cause of death in the country, behind only heart disease and cancer. It is gratifying and heartbreaking at the same time to know that my research has been endorsed by leading experts in this field.
• Kaiser Health News, October 21, 2014: Hospitals’ Struggles To Beat Back Familiar Infections Began Before Ebola Arrived
  While Ebola stokes public anxiety, more than one in six hospitals — including some top medical centers — are having trouble stamping out less exotic but sometimes deadly infections, federal records show.
• Foreign Affairs, October 15, 2014: Governo Anuncia Medidas Para Reduzir Cesarianas Desnecessárias
  (Note: In Portuguese) Government Announces Measures to Reduce Unnecessary Cesareans . The ANS also proposes changing the care delivery with the pilot project based on the best scientific evidence model. The project is a partnership with the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Baby Friendly Hospital.
• Healthcare Finance News, October 14, 2014: Acute Case Managers in Today's World Should Be Viewed as Leaders in the Organization
  The IHI Triple Aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations and reducing per capita costs of healthcare) is great news for assertive, proactive case managers who have long yearned for teamwork, and have historically spent the majority of their day trying to figure out the patient’s plan and get team members on the same page – all while engaging the patient at the same time.
• Medscape, October 08, 2014: No EHR Flaw After All in Ebola Case, Says Hospital
  Ideally, physicians should read nursing notes, "but in a busy place, that doesn't always happen," said Donald Goldmann, MD, chief medical and scientific officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Politico, October 07, 2014: Communication Glitches All Too Common in Hospitals
  Don Goldmann, chief medical and scientific officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, says that blaming computer records is a red herring. Mistakes happen when health care systems don’t work, electronic or otherwise. But protecting patients isn’t just an engineering feat; at some point, where there’s a complex or crucial or unusual piece of information, people have to speak up and speak to each other.
• Becker's Healthcare, October 07, 2014: 20 Patient Safety Tools
  To supplement the material and analysis provided by Becker's Clinical Quality and Infection Control, Becker's Healthcare offers an online database of free and low-cost downloadable patient safety tools and resources, putting them all in one place for user convenience. The database contains tools for patients and providers on all quality-related matters, including general and specific infection prevention and control, patient safety culture, change management, adverse event prevention and quality reporting.
• FlaglerLive.com, October 07, 2014: Florida Hospital Flagler To See Medicare Payments Reduced 0.37% Per Patient, One of 148 Penalized in State
  Medicare is fining a record number of hospitals – including more than 140 in Florida, among them Florida Hospital Flagler – for having too many patients return within a month for additional treatments, newly released federal records show.
• Kaiser Health News, October 02, 2014: Medicare Fines 2,610 Hospitals In Third Round Of Readmission Penalties
  Medicare is fining a record number of hospitals – 2,610 – for having too many patients return within a month for additional treatments, federal records released Wednesday show. Even though the nation’s readmission rate is dropping, Medicare’s average fines will be higher, with 39 hospitals receiving the largest penalty allowed, including the nation’s oldest hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
• PLOS ONE, September 30, 2014: High Uptake of Systematic HIV Counseling and Testing and TB Symptom Screening at a Primary Care Clinic in South Africa
  Timely diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV is important to reduce morbidity and mortality, and break the cycle of ongoing transmission.
• Becker's Hospital CFO, September 29, 2014: Hospital Ratings: What the Shift From Inpatient to Outpatient Means for Performance Measurement
  Administrators today are challenged with the need to identify the most appropriate setting for care, while working to improve quality (outcomes) and service (the patient experience) in the most cost effective manner. This may mean moving certain services that were traditionally provided in the hospital into the community.
• The Peninsula, September 24, 2014: HMC marks World Sepsis Day
  Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is raising awareness of sepsis – a complication commonly triggered by an infection - and helping the public understand how to prevent the potentially life-threatening condition as part of activities to mark World Sepsis Day.
• Degrees, September 19, 2014: Perspectives on How Implementation Science Can Improve Global Health
  What is implementation science, and what can it do for the field of global health? Earlier this month, FHI 360 brought together over 150 public health specialists, researchers, scholars and donors in Washington, DC, for a day-long symposium to wrestle with these questions.
• Modern Healthcare, September 15, 2014: Ambulatory Surgery Centers Can Be Risky for Older Patients
  In the wake of comedian Joan Rivers’ death following an ambulatory surgery procedure, patient-safety leaders and some physicians are calling on outpatient surgery centers to more carefully select elderly patients for surgery and are urging patients to scrutinize the qualifications of physicians in these centers.
• FierceHealthIT, September 15, 2014: Industry Experts: Expand Patient Access, Education to Personal Health Info
  Gilbert Salinas, who spoke of his dual role as a patient with chronic illnesses and a fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, said it is important to "pull away from asking the question 'What is the matter with you' to 'what matters to you.'"
• GreenBiz.com, September 15, 2014: Kaiser Exec: Can Hospitals Heal Patients and the Planet?
  "This study turns on its head the belief that introducing environmental sustainability measures increases operating costs," says Blair L. Sadler, senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, one of the study authors and former CEO of Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. "In fact, just the opposite is true."
• The Salt Lake Tribune, September 12, 2014: Op- Ed: S. L. Meeting Shows Utah's Leadership in Health Care Efficiency
  On Sept. 16-17 the Board of Directors of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) will be in Salt Lake City for meetings at Intermountain Healthcare.
• Associations Now, September 08, 2014: A Big Course From a Small Association
  One executive at a state association has taken the lead on educating healthcare workers on a pressing national issue via a MOOC.
• The Seattle Times, September 03, 2014: Cars, TVs come with warranties: Why not hips and knees?
  Seattle’s Virginia Mason is one of the first hospitals in the country to offer a warranty on its joint-replacement surgeries.
• Infection Control Today, September 02, 2014: Study Shows Nationwide Declines in Central Line Infections and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
  Hospitals across the country have seen sharp declines in rates of central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) among critically ill neonates and children, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
• Forbes, August 31, 2014: How Will Millennials Face Their Parents' Aging? With Wearable Tech and Human Touch
  Generation X is entering that phase when the parents who cared for us need the favor partially returned. The process likely looks similar to what Baby Boomers have experienced, but how will it be for millennials? By the time their parents become seniors, will technology have radically changed the way both parent and child face the questions of health and independence?
• FierceHealthIT, August 27, 2014: Telemedicine a 'Cornerstone' Solution to Triple Aim Efforts
  There are not many options for improving care while also decreasing costs, Wang says, but telemedicine is an area where health systems, hospitals and physician practices should work more aggressively.
• FierceHealthFinance, August 21, 2014: Clinicians Must Address Cost, Quality of Care to Reduce Spending
  As patients gain more control over their healthcare and demand more of a role in the decision-making process, hospitals, doctors and front-line workers must engage them in conversations about cost and quality care matters.
• 9-1-1 Magazine, August 20, 2014: EMS Podcast Online: From Prehospital to In-Hospital: The Continuum for Time-Sensitive Care
  On July 24th, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) hosted an audio program on the topic, “From Prehospital to In-Hospital — The Continuum for Time-Sensitive Care,” featuring a panel of four national and international experts.
• City Of Cape Town, August 15, 2014: City’s ARV Clubs Change Lives
  The ARV clubs are a World Design Capital 2014 project, showcasing an innovation which reduces the time patients spend waiting for ARV medication, eases the pressure on congested facilities, and enables staff to focus on sick patients.
• Becker's ASC Review, August 15, 2014: 10 Patient Safety Tools for the ASC Setting
  The following 10 tools are for ASCs to employ in pursuit of improving and reinforcing patient safety, published on Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality.
• Healthcare Traveler, August 13, 2014: Hospitals Resolve to Increase Nurses’ Time at the Bedside
  An influx of newly insured patients and additional administrative tasks are taking nurses away from the bedside, but some hospitals are finding creative ways to increase the amount of direct-care time patients receive.
• Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, August 11, 2014: Looking to the Future of Patient Safety
  Where is the patient safety movement headed? What new issues will emerge? Among the current hot topics—hospital-associated infections, readmissions, unprofessional behavior, diagnostic errors, and others—which do think will be under control (or not) five years from now?
• Center for Health Reporting, August 07, 2014: E-Record Push Dividing Doctors
  “A lot of primary care physicians are pretty burned out. There are older physicians who are saying, ‘I’ve had enough.’ Then, if you sit down with someone trying to provide care in the midst of a major electronic medical record install, they may tell you that it’s a major distraction and an enormous time commitment over a long period of time.” IHI's Don Goldmann
• NBC News, August 03, 2014: What is Perfect Human Health? Google Wants to Map It
  Google Baseline, announced last week, will collect molecular and genetic information from an initial 175 volunteers and later thousands more. The philosophy is to focus on the genetics of health itself, rather than focus on disease.
• Journal News, August 03, 2014: Interest in Shared Medical Visits Increasing in Region
  Studies and published findings show group medical visits prove effective in helping people manage a chronic condition or new diagnosis while increasing a patient’s access to their physician and freeing up more of the physician’s time to treat other patients.
• The Hospitalist, August 01, 2014: Hospital Patient Safety, Quality Movement Helped Propel Hospitalists
  Early hospitalists well positioned to improve inpatient care, expand specialty.
• Yahoo News, July 21, 2014: How a Team of Doctors at One Hospital Boosted Hand Washing, Cut Infections and Created a Culture of Safety
  Washing hands is one of the single most effective ways to prevent the spread of dangerous infections — ranging from pneumonia to MRSA, a life-threatening staph infection — in US hospitals. One in 25 patients will battle at least one infection picked up in the hospital, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2011, there were approximately 722,000 of these health care-associated infections nationwide and about 75,000 patients died. Still, hospital workers wash their hands only about 40 to 50 percent of the time, often because it’s inconvenient or they are overwhelmed by other tasks.
• Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2014: Nurses Shift, Aiming for More Time With Patients
  The Wall Street Journal explores the need for hospitals to increase the time nurses spend at the patient bedside; includes remarks from Pat Rutherford and an overview of the IHI/RWJF program, Transforming Care at the Bedside.
• Akron Beacon Journal , July 11, 2014: Children’s Hospital Tackles Potential Errors by Improving Patient Handoffs
  According to new national research led by a critical care doctor at Akron Children’s Hospital, establishing standardized ways to transfer patient care during shift changes or between units can reduce “handoff-related care failures” by nearly 70 percent.
• Forbes, July 06, 2014: Doctors May Soon Be Paid For Not Making You Wait
  More doctor pay is being tied to patient satisfaction metrics, another sign health care may be coming more consumer-friendly, according to a new national analysis of physician compensation.
• Academic Medicine, July 01, 2014: Harvard Medical School Academic Innovations Collaborative: Transforming Primary Care Practice and Education
  In 2012, the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, in partnership with with local AMCs, established an Academic Innovations Collaborative (AIC) with the goal of transforming primary care education and practice. This novel two-year learning collaborative consisted of hospital- and community-based primary care teaching practices, committed to building highly functional teams, managing populations, and engaging patients.
• Advance Healthcare Network, June 23, 2014: Meeting the Unfulfilled Promises of EHRs
  Though electronic patient records have been around for more 50 years,2 for the past decade, U.S. physicians have been navigating one of the largest health information technology roll-outs in history. Promising increased efficiency, improved access to relevant clinical information, and funded by federal dollars, the recent rise in electronic health records (EHRs) has been met with both fanfare and fear.
• mHealth Insight, May 21, 2014: Flipping the Clinic: Listen to your Patients They’ll Tell You How They Want You to Care for Them
  Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO​ at the​ Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)​, Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School​​ and Research Associate ​at​ the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities​, ​shares insights from ​Trevor Torres, Type 1 Diabet​ic and Diabetes Evangelist, ​on the opportunity we have to flip the clinic.
• NursingTimes.net, May 16, 2014: Do Your Staff Feel Safe to Speak Out?
  When did you last fly? Wasn’t it reassuring to know the crew went through a checklist to make sure all was in order before take off? In healthcare we have adapted this concept to make surgery safer.
• Healthcare Informatics, May 01, 2014: IHI's Goldmann: Where HIT Can Help Quality Improvement
  There is a lot of potential for healthcare informatics tools to be used to improve healthcare within the scope of clinical paradigms, but right now a lot of that technology is limited, surmises Don Goldmann, M.D., the chief medical officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
• Bay State Banner, April 14, 2014: Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk Joins World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2014
  Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk, executive director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders class of 2014.
• Courier Post , April 11, 2014: Midwifery Remains Strong Influence of Delivery of Babies in U.S.
  Centering, prenatal care, and the influence of midwife traditions on modern birth, featuring IHI's Sue Gullo.
• Huffington Post , March 26, 2014: How To Create Social Impact Through Thoughtful Networks
  This is the first in the "Designing Networks For Social Impact" blog series on networks and communities.
• Healthcare Infomatics , March 18, 2014: The Triple Aim and Healthcare IT Leaders: Time for Action
  As chief medical and scientific officer of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Don Goldmann, M.D. has been advocating passionately for transformational change in healthcare for years. Dr. Goldmann is not only the CMO at IHI; he brings his clinician background and perspective to his work advocating the diffusion of the principles of the Triple Aim (improving the health of populations and enhancing the patient experience, while optimizing costs), the core set of principles that IHI leaders are working to universalize across the U.S. healthcare system.
• News Star , March 18, 2014: Louisiana Looks to Improve Pre-Term Infant Care
  Louisiana and the Institute for Health Care Improvement have launched a new project to improve nursing care for late pre-term infants by sharing resources with all Medicaid-supported birthing hospitals throughout the state.
• Safe Healthcare , March 12, 2014: The Power of Antiobiotic Stewardship in Patient Care
  For the past several years, IHI has been actively engaged in working with a wide variety of acute care hospitals in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other national experts to advance antibiotic stewardship. Our overarching goal is to reduce adverse drug events related to inappropriate antibiotic utilization, the prevalence of antibiotic resistance, the risk of Clostridium difficile infection, and the cost of care

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• February 24, 2015: Dr. Enrique Ruelas Joins IHI Board of Directors
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, is pleased to announce its newest board member: Dr. Enrique Ruelas, who most recently served as Secretary of the General Health Council of Mexico, the body responsible for all mandatory health regulations and accreditations in Mexico.
• February 24, 2015: El Dr. Enrique Ruelas Se Incorpora Al Directorio De IHI
  El Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), líder innovador en la mejora de la salud y de la atención de la salud en todo el mundo, se complace en anunciar a su más reciente miembro del directorio: el Dr. Enrique Ruelas, quien hasta hace poco tiempo se desempeñó como Secretario del Consejo de Salubridad General de México, ente a cargo de normas y acreditaciones de salud en México.
• February 19, 2015: Media Advisory: IHI Open School Launches New Course on Eliminating Health Disparities & Improving Health Equity
  The IHI Open School has just introduced a new course on health disparities – examining what they are, why they occur, and the role health care providers can play in improving health care and health outcomes for marginalized populations. TA 102: Improving Health Equity illustrates how social conditions can contribute to poor health and, when combined with disparities in health care quality, align to create the ever-widening gap in health and well-being between individuals of differing social status and race. Understanding that health disparities involve many factors that interact together – e.g. social conditions, environment, behavior, and health care – the course offers a number of examples of how quality improvement initiatives and methodologies can reduce disparities.
• January 29, 2015: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards IHI $4.8 Million to Help Communities Become National and Global Models of Health
  IHI teams up with Community Solutions, Communities Joined in Action, and the Collaborative Health Network to spark community-driven change through a two-year initiative, SCALE (Spreading Community Adopters through Learning and Evaluation).
• December 09, 2014: IHI Kicks Off National Forum with 5,500 Health Professionals Committed to Improving Health and Health Care
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement kicks off its annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care (December 7-10, 2014, in Orlando, Florida) with 5,500 health professional committed to being best at health care and best at improving health.
• October 08, 2014: New Guiding Coalition for Health Unites to Improve the Health of Millions by 2020
  IHI convenes more than 200 innovators from health and health care to achieve a culture of health.
• September 09, 2014: CFHI and IHI Team Up to Improve Patient Experience and Outcomes while Lowering Costs
  Ten Canadian Teams Join IHI Triple Aim Collaborative.
• September 09, 2014: The Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education Program Reaches Milestone: First Providers Receive Reaccreditation
  The Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education program is proud to announce that the first two continuing education (CE) providers to be jointly accredited have now received reaccreditation. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and VHA Inc. became the first two organizations to receive joint accreditation in 2010 as providers of continuing education for healthcare teams. These two organizations have now become the first to receive reaccreditation—a milestone for interprofessional continuing education.
• September 08, 2014: IHI Announces 2014-2015 Class of Quality Improvement Fellows
  Six clinicians and health care leaders spanning four continents convene in Cambridge for year-long immersion program as part of the 2014-2015 IHI Fellowship Program.
• August 05, 2014: IHI Offers New Executive Development Program for Leaders and Organizations Transitioning to Population Management
  IHI Offers New Executive Development Program for Leaders and Organizations Transitioning to Population Management
• May 05, 2014: HMC Announces Poster Exhibition Winners Showcasing Innovative Patient Quality Initiatives
  Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced the winners of a poster competition to showcase leading healthcare quality improvement initiatives at this year’s Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety.
• April 28, 2014: Dr. Thomas Chapman Joins IHI Board of Directors
  IHI has announced that Dr. Thomas W. Chapman, president and CEO of The HSC Foundation, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. The HSC Foundation is the parent corporation of three subsidiaries that directly serve individuals with special health care needs, families and communities in the Washington metropolitan area. The Foundation also provides funds in support of populations that face social and health care barriers.
• April 02, 2014: IHI's Nneka Mobisson-Etuk Named a 2014 Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is honored to announce that Executive Director Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk has been named to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Young Global Leaders (YGL) classof 2014, thanks to her committed energy and knowledge in addressing some of the most critical issues facing humankind today.
• March 10, 2014: IHI Gathers Healthcare Leaders and Primary Care Teams for Summit in Washington, DC
  IHI, a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, kicked off its 15th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community in Washington DC. Taking place from March 9-11, more than 1,000 clinical providers and leaders are sharing the latest developments from communities across the US and Canada about the transformation of primary care.