America's Path to the Best Health Care at Lower Cost: IOM Report
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) released a report yesterday (September 6, 2012) entitled
"Best Care at Lower Cost : The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America." The IOM's Committee on the
Learning Health Care System in America was tasked with determining the key challenges to health care in the United States today.
"America's health care system has become far too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Pervasive inefficiencies, an inability to manage a rapidly deepening clinical knowledge base, and a reward system poorly focused on key patient needs, all hinder improvements in the safety and quality of care and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. Achieving higher quality care at lower cost will require fundamental commitments to the incentives, culture, and leadership that foster continuous "learning”, as the lessons from research and each care experience are systematically captured, assessed, and translated into reliable care."
In brief this report identifies three major imperatives for change:
- the rising complexity of modern health care
- unsustainable cost increases
- outcomes below the system’s potential
Read the brief or full report free online at the IOM website.
Labels: health care costs, health services, healthcare reform, IOM, knowledge transfer, patient safety, quality of care, US healthcare
The
Safe Patient Handling Training for Schools of Nursing has been released by the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The material includes web-based training in safe patient handling and movement (flash media), as well as a downloadable .pdf booklet.
This resource has been developed in partnership with the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the
Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and the
American Nurses Association (ANA).
Labels: multimedia, nursing curriculum, nursing education, patient safety, training materials
FDA Patient Safety News (PSN) is a monthly video news show for healthcare professionals. It covers significant safety alerts, recalls, new product approvals, and offers important tips on protecting patients.
Read the complete stories and watch or download the video program at
http://www.fda.gov/psn. Many of these PSN stories contain video footage and demonstrations that may be especially useful to educators in healthcare facilities and academic institutions.
Labels: FDA, medical news, patient safety, safety alerts
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care. Nurses need to know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.
To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses called
"Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses". [AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043, edited by Ronda G. Hughes, Ph.D., M.H.S., R.N.]"
Click on the title to access this free ebook from the AHRQ website.Labels: evidence-based nursing, nursing education, patient safety, quality of care
