The Healthcare Quality Podcast

The Healthcare Quality Podcast episodes:

• 06.13.2017

  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 frog across the road safely and listen in!

  
• 02.09.2017

  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 difficult? (Like trying to eat wings and watch the game?) Then this is the episode...

  
• 01.28.2017

  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 Quality).

  
• 01.15.2017

  2 Key Ideas To Evaluate Your Quality Improvement System

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

  
• 01.12.2017

  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.

  
• 12.19.2016

  Great Quality Projects Tend To Repeat

  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...

  
• 12.05.2016

  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.

  
• 11.30.2016

  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.

  
• 07.22.2016

  The Problem With Benchmarking

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

  
• 06.27.2016

  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.

  
• 06.18.2016

  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://youtu.be/cRrYxwMzhj0

  
• 06.12.2016

  Social Media Sunday 2

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

  
• 06.09.2016

  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.