The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) released a Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit that includes the tools and templates needed to launch a successful quality improvement project. The toolkit also helps guide healthcare professionals to better manage performance improvement. Each team and project is slightly different in terms of what tools are relevant and how they [...]

Following our previous coverage of Coronavirus training including “Coronavirus Simulation Resources: Scenarios, Online Training, Procedures Guide” and “HHS Whistleblower Complaint Demonstrates Immediate Need for Medical Simulation Coronavirus Training“, today we share more resources for COVID-19 medical simulation training resources, starting with a COVID-19 Simulation Scenario from CAE Healthcare.

This is an extremely helpful tool for all [...]

Today the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), which also runs the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), interviewed IHI Project Director Allison Perry on the value of improving patient safety through medical simulation. She shared 3 myths about developing healthcare simulation programs for those considering the use of the methodology to improve patient safety outcomes. We [...]

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, now a merged partner with the National Patient Safety Foundation, is promoting an upcoming webinar May 10 at 2PM ET on “How to Make Change Happen: An Introduction to IHI’s Psychology of Change Framework”.​ This webinar comes just weeks before the annual IHI/NPSF Patient Safety Congress taking place May 23-25th in [...]