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 [...]

This whole week is Patient Safety Week, organized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and supported by the National Patient Safety Foundation (which merged with the IHI in 2017. Healthcare Simulation has a direct improvement to Patient Safety Outcomes, as key industry studies have shown in some cases an 88% reduction in lethal infections [...]