WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Health & Fitness:Medicine
There’s growing awareness of the need to curb health care’s overuse of interventions that lack a strong evidence base, unnecessarily subject patients to potential harm, and are more expensive than equally effective, cheaper alternatives. Initiatives like Choosing Wisely and Costs of Care have done a great job sounding the proverbial alarm about particular treatments and procedures doctors have grown too accustomed to prescribing automatically; antibiotics, certain screenings, and imaging tests often top the list. Costs of Care has put the spotlight on the financial harm of overtreatment on individual patients themselves, many of whom are now shouldering a larger and larger share of the health care bill.
Against this backdrop, a new initiative called the RightCare Alliance encourages providers to take action to eliminate practices and procedures of little benefit to patients. They’re currently crowdsourcing a number of ways care providers across the US can engage in more thoughtful interactions with patients that can result in better treatment decisions. The most-favored suggestions will get top billing during RightCare Action Week, October 18-24. We explored those suggestions and more on this WIHI.
WIHI: Reports from the Frontlines of Effective Crisis Management
WIHI: Primary Care's (New) Pressures and Possibilities
WIHI: Health Care’s Newest Improvers: Patient and Family Advisors
WIHI: The Newest Innovator on the Block: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
WIHI: A Legible Prescription for Health Care
WIHI: Alert to Change: New Models for Residency Work Hours
WIHI: The Power of Specialty Care – and the Necessity to Use It Wisely
WIHI: The Patient Activist
WIHI: Finding the Will to Bend the Cost Curve
WIHI: Nursing’s New Roadmap: Education, the Workforce, and Health Care Quality
WIHI: The Leaders Needed for the Changes Health Care Needs
WIHI: The Power to Detect and Reduce Harm: IHI’s Global Trigger Tool and Adverse Events in the US
WIHI: Reducing Readmissions, Restoring Revenues: Making Good Care Count
WIHI: The Buzz about Medical Training: It’s (Slowly) Changing
WIHI: Leaders Never Stop Learning
WIHI: Against All Odds: Maternal Survival in Ghana and the US
WIHI: Unprofessional Behavior Not Permitted Here
WIHI: The Image of Better (Radiation) Imaging Practices
WIHI: Learning by Data and by Doing: Low-Cost, High-Quality Health Care in America
WIHI: Coaching’s the Thing for Primary Care Practice
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