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May 7, 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.
Let’s say you’re measuring patient satisfaction scores. In year one, your data tell you the average score is 80 percent. In year two, your data tell you the average score is 80 percent. So nothing changed, right? Not so fast, says Bob Lloyd, IHI’s Director of Process Improvement. “Often times,” Lloyd says, “summary statistics that are static in nature don’t give you the appropriate picture of the variation that lives in your data.”
“Opportunities for improvement abound,” say results from the Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on State Health System Performance, 2014, released last week. Co-authored by IHI Senior Scientist David Radley, PhD, MPH, the Scorecard evaluated and ranked every US state according to its performance in five dimensions of care over five years:
Access and affordability
Prevention and treatment
Potentially avoidable hospital use and cost
Healthy lives
Equity
To learn how your state fared in each of these areas, view the Scorecard here. According to the report, “Even leading states did not perform consistently well — or consistently improve ― across all performance indicators.”
Khan Academy, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Association of American Medical Colleges, is looking for the next generation of medical educators to help students learn 2015 MCAT foundational concepts. Video-based educators and fantastic question and article writers are invited to partake in the competition to win trainings with the Khan Academy team. Submissions are due by June 13, and a free webinar on May 12 will explain more about the contest and provide the chance to ask questions. Click here to learn more.
Chapters Leaders, please remember to complete your Progress Report by May 16 (if you haven’t already done so) to let the Open School know how your Chapter is doing and what support you need. By completing your Progress Report, you’ll gain eligibility to apply for Chapter event sponsorship and maintain your active status in the community. Only one report is required per Chapter.
