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November 26, 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.
Bob Lloyd, Director of Performance Improvement at IHI, has two powerful tools to help your team catalyze improvement. Force Field Analysis can help you identify the boons and barriers to your improvement work and come up with strategies to move forward. With Pareto Analysis, you can learn to distinguish the “vital few” from the “trivial many” to get the most bang for your buck. Learn to use both these tools in your quality improvement work with new videos, in our final installment of Whiteboard Month.
Here’s an idea from a new Fast Company article for health systems working to reduce costs: Share equipment. Some estimates say that the US health care system wastes up to $1.2 trillion a year, and part of that is due to expensive tools sitting in storage. Could technology help health systems facilitate collaborative consumption? (Imagine a platform like Airbnb or Uber, but for sharing highly specialized surgical equipment instead of homes or cars.) Learn more about resource stewardship in health care in QCV 100: An Introduction to Quality, Cost, and Value in Health Care.
The Lown Institute, a group that advocates against overuse of medical care, is calling for trainees’ stories of medical care that caused harm without any chance of benefit. Help counteract the “more is better” culture in medicine and enter for a chance to win a scholarship to present at the Lown Institute conference in San Diego, CA, next March.
In the last year, the IHI Open School community has grown with 53,185 new students and residents registered, 82,575 courses taken, and 85 Chapters started. This Thanksgiving, we’re giving thanks to each of you for all the work you do to improve health care.
