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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology coordinates nationwide efforts that support the use of certified health IT and promote the adoption of national standards and the interoperable exchange of health information. Through the recent efforts of federal programs…
This series focuses on the IHI's main topic areas of:
Improvement Capability
Person- and Family-centered Care
Patient Safety
Quality, Cost and Value
Triple Aim for Populations
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See more resources on achieving the Triple Aim:
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physicians and hospital leaders a set of guiding principles for integration. Those six principles are:
Physician and hospital leaders with similar values and expectations aligned financial and non-financial…
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for central line blood stream infection prevention, the hospital reduced its critical care central line blood stream infection rate from 14.6 per 1,000 device days in 2004 to zero for the past 57 months. A…
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle choices needed to prevent cancer. This project is part of CHA's Response to Disparities.(Click here for a complete list of projects)
For more information, contact Ruth Adeola, program coordinator, violence and injury prevention, at radeola@umm.edu.
The HPOE guide 'Hospital Approaches to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence' includes a model for hospital-based violence intervention programs that can reduce violence, save lives and…
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, details the report from the 2014 committee on research. Among other point, the authors highlight the following:
Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems need to progress—to redefine, change and be relevant. Hospital teams are working to find better ways to provide high-quality care at lower costs to improve the health of people in their communities…