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Board Focuses on Horizon, QI Watches for Icebergs
Quality professionals should help board members understand the overall quality goals of the organization and not necessarily get too bogged down in the minutia, according to a Press Ganey white paper on the hospital board’s role in quality improvement. -
IHI Offers Resources on Integrating Quality Into Hospital Boards
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston offers several resources to help quality improvement professionals cultivate better working relationships with hospital and health system boards. -
Boards Moving From Financial Focus to Include Quality Concerns
The current increased focus on quality and the willingness of hospital boards to back quality initiatives are results of a long progression from a darker era in U.S. healthcare, says a board member who has seen the before and after. -
Cultivate Relationship With Board for Better Support of Quality Improvement
Quality professionals often wish for more support from the board of the hospital or health system — the kind of top-tier backing that can drive a quality improvement initiative to success. Such support requires a good relationship with the board, and that often requires quality professionals to take the first steps. -
Healthy Nevada Project Delivers Genetic Results to State Residents
The Healthy Nevada Project is moving forward with its population health and personalized medicine initiatives, delivering genetic results to thousands of state residents. -
Patient-Measured Outcomes Could Be Better, Address Burnout
Hospitals and health systems could more effectively address quality improvement by narrowing the metrics used to those that are meaningful and easy to understand, experts say. -
Hospital Work Environments Tied to Quality and Ratings
The working environment of nurses appears to have a correlation with patient safety and quality, with recent research finding that scores improve when hospitals improve working conditions. -
‘Just Culture’ Can Be Applied to Physician Peer Review
Healthcare organizations are finding that the “just culture” concept can be applied to the physician peer review process. The belief is that individuals should not be blamed for performance errors when the real fault may lie with flawed organizational processes. -
Health System Tackles Drop in Productivity After EMR Introduction
A healthcare system with facilities in California, Texas, and New Mexico successfully addressed the drop in productivity and clinician satisfaction that can come with the introduction of a new EMR. -
EMR Effect on Quality of Care Still a Concern, Can Be Addressed
Seventy-one percent of surveyed physicians say EMRs greatly contribute to physician burnout, and 59% say EMRs need “a complete overhaul.”