Archive for February, 2016
Inject Sanity Into Health Care Record Keeping and Measurement
Perhaps you’ve heard some version of the saying: You can’t manage what you can’t measure. We need clearly defined measures to gauge the steps toward improvement and objective criteria to determine if we have achieved true progress. In health care we’ve seen how gathering measurements can advance care. Take hospital- acquired infections. By using defined…Read More…
NJ Towns: Raise Age for Tobacco Sales to 21
Today we work in smoke-free offices, eat in smoke-free restaurants, and view cigarettes as a vice of the few — not an acceptable practice of the many. Yet the days when smoking was acceptable were not so long ago. I remember when I started working in a small New Jersey law firm in 1993. Lit cigarettes…Read More…
Take Five with NRHI President
Elizabeth Mitchell, President & CEO, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, (NRHI). Can you tell us more about NRHI (pronounced EN-ree)? NRHI is a national network of 40 regional health improvement collaboratives — we call them “RHICs” for short — working in their communities, states or regions to improve health and health care. These are organizations similar…Read More…