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Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Total Health (Washington, D.C.) is an education facility. The Sydney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center (San Leandro, Calif.) is a testing facility for such activities as workflow and hospital…
Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in telehealth, remote care and disease management. This center created Healthrageous, a behavior change solution that delivers biometric monitoring and automated coaching to consumers through mobile…
Mayo Clinic has four operating units to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division of Systems and Procedures is a consulting unit responsible for designing and implementing large and small process improvements. The Center for Innovation uses 'design thinking' to create new models of…
Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize. The award emphasizes the Quest for Quality Prize's ties to the Institute of Medicine's six aims for improvement: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient…
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement strategies that will assist in delivering care that is safe, timely, equitable, effective, efficient and patient-centered.
Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experience, improved somewhat more slowly under public reporting, and are likely to fare poorly under value-based purchasing.