The Managers and Management We Need to Improve Care (audio recording)

"what middle managers do, now, on behalf of quality improvement – and what they could do more of, if their contributions and unique positioning in the organization were better utilized and understood. Especially when it comes to making improvement endeavors operational and sustainable."

WIHI: The Managers and Management We Need to Improve Care (audio recording)
D Munch, S Calcasola, K Mate
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
March 2015

Listen to the audio recording here.

The Next Generation of Incentives to Help Doctors Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care (podcast)

"To improve decision-making at the health care provider level, policies that blend financial and non-financial incentives are being developed and tested. A new initiative called Incentives 2.0 is exploring this new type of payment reform."

The Next Generation of Incentives to Help Doctors Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care
S Hausman
The Commonwealth Fund
Oct 2014

Access the podcast here.

Optimizing Safety with the Electronic Health Record (audio broadcast)

"As the implementation of electronic health records (EHR) increases across healthcare, so has awareness of new patient safety risks that the technology has either introduced or exposed.  The very same EHR being counted on to improve communication, safety, and continuity of care across multiple settings and providers turns out to have features that can have the opposite effect."

WIHI: Optimizing Safety with the Electronic Health Record: The Latest on Glitches and Fixes from the Frontlines (audio broadcast)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
November 2014

Access the broadcast here.