WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement show

WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Summary: It's free, it's timely, and it's designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care. Welcome to WIHI, a bi-weekly podcast from the IHI, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI is a reliable source of energy, knowledge, and support for a never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. IHI works with health care providers and others to accelerate the measurable and continual progress of health care systems toward safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity.

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 WIHI: Personal Mastery for Transformational Leadership | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 01:22:33

We might spend our entire working lives striving to become better colleagues and leaders and more effective team members; Neil Baker works with health care organizations to enhance leadership and team impac

 WIHI: Harnessing Improvement to Reduce Diagnostic Errors and Delays | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:33

One in twenty adults suffers a diagnostic error every year. How do we take such a formidable analysis and “wake-up call” about patient safety and turn it into opportunity?

 WIHI: Medicare Reimbursement and Meaningful Conversations About End-Of-Life Care | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:33

Caught up in a political maelstrom several years ago, CMS has now caught up with a growing desire of patients and loved ones to express, and have health care respect, their wishes at the end of life.

 WIHI: Accelerating Improvement: The Enduring Value of Collaboratives | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:33

One of the hallmarks of the health care improvement movement has been the way in which diverse organizations and teams come together to gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to implement change. The most celebrated of these models over the past few decades has been the collaborative – as simple a concept as it is radical.

 WIHI: How Health Care Organizations Can Create Equity in the Community | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:33

Health and health care improvement communities in the US are focusing on equity and racial disparities in some important new ways. The new learning is coming from the “doing,” often making use of existing data that already tell a powerful story of persistent inequities and highlight where there are opportunities to intervene.

 WIHI: Relationships Count: Community Health Workers and Team-Based Care | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:33

What are the particular skills and training needed to be an effective community health worker? How can CHWs gain greater professional recognition?

 WIHI: Getting Right Care, Right! | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:33

There's growing awareness of the need to curb health cares overuse of interventions that lack a strong evidence base, unnecessarily subject patients to potential harm, and are more expensive than equally effective, cheaper alternatives.

 WIHI: What Students in the Health Professions Can Do For You... and Improvement | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 01:00:00

When you imagine the legions of quality improvers around the globe working hard to transform health and health care, does your picture include students?

 WIHI: Saving Lives By Design: Lessons for All From Ghana's Project Fives Alive! | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:58:44

One of the biggest ongoing challenges facing health and health care quality improvers is moving from small-scale successes to large-scale ones. That’s why it’s incredibly inspiring to learn from initiatives like Project Fives Alive! that are cracking the code.

 WIHI: The Echo Effect of Project ECHO's Access to Specialty Care | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:58:44

What began in 2003 as a process for improving access to treatment for people in New Mexico suffering from Hepatitis C, now offers support and learning for 30 different diseases and conditions, impacting patients in some 22 states. A lot of observers believe Project ECHO’s approach to expanding access to specialty care is disruptive in the best sense. That’s why took a good, hard look at what difference this effort is making to patients and providers alike on the July 9, 2015, WIHI: The Echo Effect of Project ECHO’s Access to Specialty Care.

 WIHI: The IHI Triple Aim: Lessons from the First Seven Years | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 01:02:35

Milbank Quarterly​ has just published the first major harvesting of lessons learned over the past seven years of work on the Triple Aim, drawing on IHI’s engagement with some 141 organizations across a wide array of settings. We brought the authors into our studio to discuss their analysis for the June 25 WIHI: The IHI Triple Aim: Lessons from the First Seven Years.

 WIHI: Disability Competent Care | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:59:34

Disability community advocates, health systems, health plans, consultants, and government agencies have been looking hard at what constitutes disability competent care. We found out who's helping to raise the bar on best practice in health care for people with physical disabilities on this WIHI.

 WIHI: Now What? Best Practices for Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:57:28

Leonard Berry has spent the past year interviewing more than 350 patients, family members, oncologists, and others to get to the heart of current problems and missteps when it comes to supporting those who are newly diagnosed with cancer. As Len puts it, “A cancer diagnosis is a fireball that turns a patient’s and family’s lives upside down. How can we improve the overall experience? What are the possibilities to ease the path in these first, highly emotional days?”

 WIHI: Leaning In: Oregon's Coordinated Care Organizations | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:58:07

Oregon’s latest efforts to provide better care and value to nearly one million Medicaid recipients is through Coordinated Care Organizations. Enabling policies and legislation have been several years in the making, and the careful shaping of the program is leading to some impressive results.

 WIHI: Reducing Risks and Defects in Real Time with Help from the Frontlines | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 00:58:07

As health care quality improvement has matured, it’s common to hear the phrase, “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.” But what does that mean more precisely, and how does the concept apply day-to-day?

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