Healthcare Errors Are More Like Frogger Than Swiss Cheese
This episode contrasts the Swiss Cheese model of medical error with a suggestion for a new one: the Frogger model of medical error. Get your...
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The Healthcare Quality Podcast
The HQP (Healthcare Quality Podcast) focuses on modern healthcare quality improvement techniques and their applications.
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13 episodes
How To Collect Data On Super Bowl LI While Eating Wings
This episode describes some of the keys for easy collection of meaningful data. Do you find yourself so busy that data collection is difficu...
A Metric To Capture Value In Healthcare
This episode describes a useful healthcare value metric based on a process capability measure (Cpk) and waste measurement (Cost of Poor Qual...
2 Key Ideas To Evaluate Your Quality Improvement System
In this podcast, we discuss 2 key ideas to evaluate your quality improvement system.
Healthcare Is A Decade Behind Other Industries
This episode explores To Err Is Human, & the idea that healthcare is a decade behind other industries in some important areas.
Great Quality Projects Tend To Repeat
Have you ever noticed that great quality improvement projects repeat themselves across organizations? Is it because organizations share tech...
Will Your Quality Improvements Survive?
A lesson from an OR turnaround time project: failure to plan a control phase is planning for your project to fail.
How One Team Used Data To Improve ED Throughput
Here's a useful story of how one team improved ED throughput by walking through system and finding an unexpected delay.
The Problem With Benchmarking
This episode discusses the pitfalls of benchmarking before rigorously improving your healthcare system.
Social Media Sunday 3
This episode discusses social media tools for getting your message out with particular attention to the If This Then That (IFTT) platform.
Here's How To Show Patient Risk
This episode reviews how to quantify a patient's risk for a certain outcome in your system. Watch video version on #youtube here: https://yo...
Social Media Sunday 2
Ongoing series on social media tools, tips & tricks for healthcare social media users.
Data Quality Impacts The Bottom Line
In this episode, we briefly explore some facts about how data quality affects a healthcare organization's bottom line.