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 frog across the road safely and listen in!

Healthcare Errors Are More Like Frogger Than Swiss Cheese

This episode describes some of the keys for easy collection of meaningful data.  Do you find yourself so busy that data collection is difficult?  (Like trying to eat wings and watch the game?) Then this is the episode for you!

How To Collect Data On Super Bowl LI While Eating Wings

This episode describes a useful healthcare value metric based on a process capability measure (Cpk) and waste measurement (Cost of Poor Quality).

A Metric To Capture Value In Healthcare

In this podcast, we discuss 2 key ideas to evaluate your quality improvement system.

2 Key Ideas To Evaluate Your Quality Improvement System

This episode explores To Err Is Human, &amp; the idea that healthcare is a decade behind other industries in some important areas.

Healthcare Is A Decade Behind Other Industries

Have you ever noticed that great quality improvement projects repeat themselves across organizations?  Is it because organizations share techniques?  Is it that we have so much room to improve in terms of healthcare quality...

Great Quality Projects Tend To Repeat

A lesson from an OR turnaround time project:  failure to plan a control phase is planning for your project to fail.

Will Your Quality Improvements Survive?

Here's a useful story of how one team improved ED throughput by walking through system and finding an unexpected delay.

How One Team Used Data To Improve ED Throughput

This episode discusses the pitfalls of benchmarking before rigorously improving your healthcare system.

The Problem With Benchmarking

This episode discusses social media tools for getting your message out with particular attention to the If This Then That (IFTT) platform.

Social Media Sunday 3

The HQP (Healthcare Quality Podcast) focuses on modern healthcare quality improvement techniques and their applications.

This episode reviews how to quantify a patient's risk for a certain outcome in your system.  Watch video version on #youtube here:  https://youtu.be/cRrYxwMzhj0

This episode reviews how to quantify a patient's risk for a certain outcome in your system.  Watch video version on #youtube here:  <a href="https://youtu.be/cRrYxwMzhj0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/cRrYxwMzhj0</a>

Here's How To Show Patient Risk

Ongoing series on social media tools, tips &amp; tricks for healthcare social media users.

Social Media Sunday 2

In this episode, we briefly explore some facts about how data quality affects a healthcare organization's bottom line.

Data Quality Impacts The Bottom Line

This new podcast is exactly what is needed in healthcare. Having worked in medicine for over 13 years, I have seen many systems paralyzed by their own inability to make an effective change. This podcast brings up great scenarios that are commonly seen, and uses data to provide solutions. I highly recommend if you are in healthcare and are interested in improving quality.

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The Healthcare Quality Podcast

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