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Wed, Dec 09 2009 4:23 PM EST
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When I go through my notes at the end of every conference, I discover a number of interesting thoughts from presenters and attendees that for one reason or another never made it into any of my blog posts. Herewith is a sampling from the last four days at IHI:
- “Health care has no intrinsic... [MORE]
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Wed, Dec 09 2009 4:05 PM EST
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Theft was widely endorsed at a session today examining the challenges and opportunities of patient safety in rural hospitals. The focus was the Maine Critical Access Hospital Patient Safety Collaborative, in which 14 of the state’s CAHs have come together to work on common issues around safety... [MORE]
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Tue, Dec 08 2009 7:21 PM EST
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Health care providers need to take some giant IT steps—quickly—if they want to cash in on $46 billion in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments intended to promote electronic health records. Hospitals will likely be required to use CPOE for 10 percent of all patient care orders in 2011... [MORE]
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Tue, Dec 08 2009 6:52 PM EST
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Steven J. Spear is the author “Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition,” which IHI President Don Berwick called “a profoundly important book.” It examines why certain organizations, including top-tier health systems, essentially make mincemeat out o... [MORE]
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Tue, Dec 08 2009 6:41 PM EST
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The IHI conference keeps charging along, with lots of interactive sessions built around one of the organization’s core themes, “All Teach, All Learn.” Yesterday included 25 daylong mini-courses focusing on everything from decreasing rehospitalizations to designing a patient-centere... [MORE]
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Mon, Dec 07 2009 4:46 PM EST
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Hospitals planning to purchase a computerized provider order entry system should be forewarned: Think big. Real Big.
“CPOE is not plug and play,” Jan Gibson-Gerrity told an IHI session. “It’s a major, complex transformation for an organization, and it will take years. ... [MORE]
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Mon, Dec 07 2009 4:38 PM EST
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A fifth of all medication doses are administered in error, according to data cited at a session Sunday titled “Medication Safety Technology: Lessons for All.” The consensus among health care quality leaders is that bar coding, CPOE and the like are critical tools to cut those numbers. Ye... [MORE]
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Wed, Oct 14 2009 4:29 PM EST
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Admit it: Your eyelids start to droop every time somebody mentions the word “culture.” It’s one of those things you know you probably ought to fix if only you could figure out exactly what it is.
Three presenters at an MGMA session called “Creating a Culture of Safet... [MORE]
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Tue, Oct 13 2009 5:41 PM EST
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As a congenital skeptic, I’m having a hard time processing all the optimistic talk around health care reform coming out of the MGMA conference. While acknowledging the many things that are wrong with the system today and the fact that one powerful force or another is ready to block nearly ever... [MORE]
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Mon, Oct 12 2009 6:04 PM EST
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In researching his new book, what did T.R. Reid find among countries that provide universal coverage? “In the first place, it’s not all socialized medicine,” he said, noting that many systems have private physicians, private hospitals and private health care plans. “And it do... [MORE]
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