Healthcare Industry Resources

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Healthcare Industry Resources

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"Clean Care is Safer Care" - The First Global Patient Safety Challenge
Save Lives: Clean Your Hands is a Clean Care is Safer Care initiative that aims to galvanise global action on hand hygiene at the point of care, building on the enthusiasm and action we have seen since the launch of Clean Care is Safer Care in 2005.
A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population
Implementation of the checklist was associated with concomitant reductions in the rates of death and complications among patients at least 16 years of age who were undergoing noncardiac surgery in a diverse group of hospitals.
ASQ Healthcare Division
The Healthcare Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) encourages research, innovation, and the formation of learning partnerships to advance knowledge of healthcare quality.
DCoE - Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
Mission: DCoE assesses, validates, oversees and facilitates prevention, resilience, identification, treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs for psychological health (PH) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) to ensure the Department of Defense meets the needs of the nation's military communities, warriors and families.
Healthreform.gov
Sky-rocketing health care costs for families, businesses, and government are unsustainable. Reform is imperative to help America’s families struggling with rising costs and those who are losing their insurance. At the same time, real health care reform is crucial to keeping American businesses competitive in the world economy and for the country’s long-term economic viability. President Obama believes we can no longer afford to put health care reform on hold. As he said in his address to congress last month. “Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year.”
HFMA - Healthcare Financial Management Association
HFMA is the nation's leading personal membership organization for healthcare financial management professionals. HFMA brings perspective and clarity to the industry's complex issues for the purpose of preparing our members to succeed and, more importantly, to be successful. Through our programs, publications and partnerships we enhance the capabilities that strengthen not only individual careers, but also the organizations from which our members come.
IHI - Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world.
Lean Healthcare West
Lean Healthcare West offers education in and implementation of Lean principles in hospitals, clinics, long term care facilities, other health care facilities, physician office practices, community health care programs, and health care insurance companies.
Safe Surgery Saves Lives - The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge
The goal of the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Challenge is to improve the safety of surgical care around the world by ensuring adherence to proven standards of care in all states. The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has improved compliance with standards and decreased complications from surgery in eight pilot hospitals where is was evaluated. Learn how to implement the checklist in your own facility - see the tools and resources below.
Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
Hospitals and health-care facilities throughout the world are invited to take part in a global initiative, raising hand hygiene awareness and reducing healthcare acquired infection (HAI). Already over 1120 hospitals from 77 countries all over the world have registered.
The 5 Million Lives Campaign - Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.
The 5 Million Lives Campaign was a voluntary initiative to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years (December 2006 – December 2008).
The Surgical Checklist Sprint. One test. One OR. In 4,000 hospitals. By April 1.
Join the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Sprint! Test the WHO Surgical Safety checklist at least one time with one operating team in every hospital currently enrolled in the Campaign by April 1, 2009. Go to the Checklist Materials page for details, valuable tools, and resources.
WHO - World Health Organization
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
Why We Make Mistakes
We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we're way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error—how we think, see, remember and forget, and how this sets us up for wholly irresistible mistakes.