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EHR Tools for Quality Improvement

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) provides powerful tools for exploring clinical data and implementing quality improvement solutions, enabling clinicians to enhance patient care while upholding key ethical responsibilities.

Run Charts

What is a Run Chart? In quality improvement, it’s essential to know if the changes you’re making are actually leading to improvement. A run chart is a simple yet powerful tool that helps you do just that. It is a line graph that plots data points over...

Value-Based Care

Shifting from Volume to Value For decades, the American healthcare system operated on a fee-for-service model that compensated providers for the quantity of services delivered. This approach has led to escalating costs without a corresponding improvement in patient...

Stakeholder Engagement

Why Engagement Matters Involving patients and partners in quality improvement and implementation science studies brings invaluable perspectives and expertise to the table. By incorporating their lived experiences, you can identify topics, interventions, and health...

Value Stream Mapping

What is Value Stream Mapping? Have you ever felt that your team is working incredibly hard, but the system itself creates delays and frustration? Value stream mapping is a powerful tool for diagnosing this exact problem. It visualizes the entire flow of a process—like...

Using The Fishbone Diagram for Root Cause Analysis

What is a Fishbone Diagram? The cause and effect diagram, also known as a Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram, is a visual tool used to explore the potential causes of a specific problem. By organizing ideas into logical categories, it helps teams move beyond obvious...

Just Culture

Creating a Culture of Safety and Support In the high-stakes world of medicine, tragedies can occur. When a patient is harmed, the impact ripples outward, affecting everyone involved, from the surgeon to the nurses. The key to creating a safe environment is to...