%0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Adams, Karen %E Corrigan, Janet M. %T Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality %@ 978-0-309-08543-4 %D 2003 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10593/priority-areas-for-national-action-transforming-health-care-quality %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10593/priority-areas-for-national-action-transforming-health-care-quality %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 159 %X A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans. The priority areas selected represent the entire spectrum of health care from preventive care to end of life care. They also touch on all age groups, health care settings and health care providers. Collective action in these areas could help transform the entire health care system. In addition, the report identifies criteria and delineates a process that DHHS may adopt to determine future priority areas. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Corrigan, Janet M. %E Greiner, Ann %E Erickson, Shari M. %T Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System Demonstrations %@ 978-0-309-08707-0 %D 2003 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10565/fostering-rapid-advances-in-health-care-learning-from-system-demonstrations %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10565/fostering-rapid-advances-in-health-care-learning-from-system-demonstrations %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 107 %X In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to identify possible demonstration projects that might be implemented in 2003, with the hope of yielding models for broader health system reform within a few years. The committee is recommending a substantial portfolio of demonstration projects, including chronic care and primary care demonstrations, information and communications technology infrastructure demonstrations, health insurance coverage demonstrations, and liability demonstrations. As a set, the demonstrations address key aspects of the health care delivery system and the financing and legal environment in which health care is provided. The launching of a carefully crafted set of demonstrations is viewed as a way to initiate a "building block" approach to health system change. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %T Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century %@ 978-0-309-46561-8 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10027/crossing-the-quality-chasm-a-new-health-system-for-the %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10027/crossing-the-quality-chasm-a-new-health-system-for-the %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 360 %X Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Corrigan, Janet M. %E Eden, Jill %E Smith, Barbara M. %T Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality %@ 978-0-309-08618-9 %D 2003 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10537/leadership-by-example-coordinating-government-roles-in-improving-health-care %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10537/leadership-by-example-coordinating-government-roles-in-improving-health-care %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 206 %X The federal government operates six major health care programs that serve nearly 100 million Americans. Collectively, these programs significantly influence how health care is provided by the private sector. Leadership by Example explores how the federal government can leverage its unique position as regulator, purchaser, provider, and research sponsor to improve care - not only in these six programs but also throughout the nation's health care system. The book describes the federal programs and the populations they serve: Medicare (elderly), Medicaid (low income), SCHIP (children), VHA (veterans), TRICARE (individuals in the military and their dependents), and IHS (native Americans). It then examines the steps each program takes to assure and improve safety and quality of care. The Institute of Medicine proposes a national quality enhancement strategy focused on performance measurement of clinical quality and patient perceptions of care. The discussion on which this book focuses includes recommendations for developing and pilot-testing performance measures, creating an information infrastructure for comparing performance and disseminating results, and more. Leadership by Example also includes a proposed research agenda to support quality enhancement. The third in the series of books from the Quality of Health Care in America project, this well-targeted volume will be important to all readers of To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm - as well as new readers interested in the federal government's role in health care. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Aspden, Philip %E Corrigan, Janet M. %E Wolcott, Julie %E Erickson, Shari M. %T Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care %@ 978-0-309-09077-3 %D 2004 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10863/patient-safety-achieving-a-new-standard-for-care %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10863/patient-safety-achieving-a-new-standard-for-care %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 550 %X Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To achieve this, a new health care delivery system is needed — a system that both prevents errors from occurring, and learns from them when they do occur. The development of such a system requires a commitment by all stakeholders to a culture of safety and to the development of improved information systems for the delivery of health care. This national health information infrastructure is needed to provide immediate access to complete patient information and decision-support tools for clinicians and their patients. In addition, this infrastructure must capture patient safety information as a by-product of care and use this information to design even safer delivery systems. Health data standards are both a critical and time-sensitive building block of the national health information infrastructure. Building on the Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Patient Safety puts forward a road map for the development and adoption of key health care data standards to support both information exchange and the reporting and analysis of patient safety data.