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November 12, 2014
The IHI Open School is an innovative learning community where you can take free online courses, earn certificates, network with peers and experts, and gain confidence and skills in quality improvement and patient safety to change health care.
What would you do if your chief of medicine was so incompetent that you feared for your patients? This wasn’t a hypothetical situation when Paul Griner, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Rochester, was in the armed forces. In a case study — our resource of the month — Dr. Griner tells the story of what he and colleagues decided to do.Discuss the situation with your Chapter and check out comments from Dr. Griner.
The IHI Open School is celebrating Whiteboard Month this November.Today, we bring you the latest in our video series: Cause & Effect Diagrams. Bob Lloyd, Director of Performance Improvement at IHI, explains how to use these drawings, also known as fishbone or Ishikawa diagrams, to plot out all the possible causes for a problem. By any name, these diagrams can help you home in on solutions.
Electronic medical records (EMRs) hold tremendous potential for improving patient care, but new research shows that they’re coming at the cost of doctors’ time. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that attending physicians lost an average 48 minutes a day to EMRs, and residents lost 18 minutes a day. “EMRs are like democracy,” says Dr. Leora Horwitz, a physician in New York. “It’s the worst form of medical records except for all the other ones.” Read the full story in Shots, NPR’s health blog, and learn more by checking out last week’s WIHI on electronic records and patient safety.
Attention students, residents, and faculty advisors attending the IHI National Forum — there are two days left to apply to present a storyboard! Remember, you can present storyboards about your Chapter, including your group’s structure, successes, and projects, and about your quality improvement work. Never fear, procrastinators, you don’t need a finished storyboard to apply — just submit your title and description before the November 14 deadline. Click here for the application, templates, and examples of storyboards from prior Forums.
