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.
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WIHI: Clinicians and Financial Staff Can Improve Quality and Lower Costs, Part 2
WIHI: Employers and Employees Can Improve Quality and Lower Costs: Stories from the Front Lines, Part 1
WIHI: A Partnership to Reduce Deaths from Sepsis
WIHI: Navigating New Care Teams with Nurse Practitioners
WIHI: Reality Knocks with Reducing (Hospital) Readmissions
WIHI: OpenNotes: Doctors and Patients Are on the Same Page
WIHI: Gaining Ground: Quality Improvement and US Medical Residency
WIHI: Navigating the Elections with a Clear-Eyed View
WIHI: Pioneering ACOs: What Do We Know So Far?
WIHI: Conversations as Cornerstones of End-of-Life Wishes
WIHI: Minimally Disruptive Medicine
WIHI: Triple Perspectives on Triple Aim in a Region
WIHI: Essential Skills for Health Care Reformers and Improvers: Holding Tension and Learning Habits of the Heart
WIHI: Situational Awareness and Patient Safety
WIHI: Testing,Testing! Is This Procedure Necessary?
WIHI: "Pursuing the Triple Aim" Book Discussion with the Authors and Innovators
WIHI: You Can't Improve What You Can't Evaluate
WIHI: Going, Going, Green! Embedding Environmental Health and Sustainability into Health Care Delivery
WIHI: What Can You Learn in 90 Days? IHI’s Innovation Process
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