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: Harnessing Improvement to Reduce Diagnostic Errors and Delays
WIHI: Medicare Reimbursement and Meaningful Conversations about End-of-Life Care
WIHI: Accelerating Improvement: The Enduring Value of Collaboratives
WIHI: How Health Care Organizations Can Create Equity in the Community
WIHI: Relationships Count: Community Health Workers and Team-Based Care
WIHI: What Students in the Health Professions Can Do for You... and Improvement
WIHI: Saving Lives by Design: Lessons for All from Ghana's Project Fives Alive!
WIHI: The Echo Effect of Project ECHO's Access to Specialty Care
WIHI: The IHI Triple Aim: Lessons from the First Seven Years
WIHI: Disability Competent Care
WIHI: Now What? Best Practices for Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients
WIHI: Leaning In: Oregon's Coordinated Care Organizations
WIHI: Reducing Risks and Defects with Help from the Front Lines
WIHI: All Hands on Deck to Reduce C. Difficile
WIHI: The Managers and Management We Need to Improve Care
WIHI: Bundles and Buy-In for Value-Based Care
WIHI: Topping the Charts in Pediatrics and Adverse Events Reporting
WIHI: The Ups and Downs of Health Care Costs and Reform
WIHI: When Everyone Knows Your Name: Identifying Patients with Complex Needs
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