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Tag Archives: Quality
Mayo Clinic Expert Discusses “Just Right” Medicine at Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting
Victor Montori, M.D., Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, will give a special interest keynote at IHI’s annual meeting today, addressing minimally-disruptive medicine, a new patient-centered health care model designed around the patient’s life goals and … Continue reading
By Shelly Plutowski |
Posted in Innovation, Quality
Tagged health care models, minimally disruptive medicine, Quality
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Rochester Methodist Hospital Receives National Recognition From American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized Rochester Methodist Hospital, one of Mayo Clinic’s hospitals in Rochester, Minn., as one of 28 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals in the United States that have achieved … Continue reading
By Karl Oestreich |
Posted in Quality
Tagged ACS NSQIP, American College of Surgeons, cardiac arrest, Deep Vein Thrombosis, Mayo Clinic, Myocardial Infarction, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, Pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, Quality, Rochester Methodist Hospital, SSI, surgical procedures, surgical site infections, thrombophlebitis
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Diversion of Drugs Within Healthcare Facilities, a Multiple-Victim Crime
Above Keith Berge, M.D., an Anesthesiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, reviews an article that appeared in the July 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings’ on the increasing occurrence and awareness of drug diversion within the medical community, which … Continue reading
By nickhanson |
Posted in Anesthesiology, Education, Innovation, Quality, Uncategorized
Tagged drug diversion, health care quality, hospitals, Keith Berge, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, medical community, Patients, Quality
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Mayo Clinic Ranked as a Top-Performing Academic Medical Center
Mayo Clinic has been identified as one of the nation’s best-performing academic medical centers by the University HealthSystem Consortium. The consortium created a quality and accountability study in 2005 to help academic medical centers improve health care quality and safety. For … Continue reading
By sharontheimer |
Posted in Education, Innovation, Quality, Research
Tagged academic medical center, Mayo, Medical School, Patients, practice, Quality, Research, uhc, university healthsystem consortium
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Mayo Clinic Quality and Systems Engineering Conference Set for Next Month
Three Mayo Clinic conferences focused on health care delivery – The Quality Academy Conference, The Conference on Systems Engineering/Operations Research in Health Care and The Mayo Clinic Health System Quality Innovation Conference – will be combined into a single event … Continue reading
By Randy Schwarz |
Posted in Events, Quality, Research
Tagged #MayoQSE, division of engineering, engineering, henry ting, MD, Quality, Research, systems
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Mayo Clinic health care expert offers insight to U.S. Dept. of VA
Stephen Swensen, M.D., the Mayo Clinic Director of Quality, joined a group of national health care experts this week in Washington to advise the United States Department of Veteran Affairs on how to offer the next generation of health care … Continue reading
By briankilen |
Posted in Health Policy, Quality
Tagged health policy, Quality, Swensen, VA
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Mayo Clinic Named to Top 10 Health System List
For the second year in a row, Mayo Clinic Foundation has been named to the list of Top 10 Health Systems by Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Reuters 10 Top Health Systems study identifies the 10 best health systems in the … Continue reading
By Karl Oestreich |
Posted in Human Resource
Tagged Health Systems, Mayo Clinic, Quality, Thomson Reuters
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Mayo Clinic Quality Academy Conference to be held May 3-4
The 15th Annual Mayo Clinic Quality Academy Conference, “Creating and Paying for Value in Health Care,” will be held May 3-4, 2011, at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn. This conference, open to all health care providers, will provide … Continue reading
By Randy Schwarz |
Posted in Events
Tagged denham, henry ting, IHI, Maureen Bisognano, patricia simmons, Quality, stephen swensen, value, Victor Montori
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Five Leading Health Systems Create New Care Connectivity Consortium
Five innovative and leading health systems, each of whom are pioneers in the use of electronic medical records for their patients, will join together today to announce a new initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, with the first data … Continue reading
By Rebecca Eisenman |
Posted in Health Policy, Quality
Tagged Care Connectivity, consortium, Dawn Milliner, Health Care, Lee Howard, Mayo Clinic, Quality
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Leading Health Care Organizations Announce Collaborative Effort to Improve Care, Six of the nation’s leading health care systems today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve health care quality while reducing costs.
Six of the nation’s leading health care systems today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve health care quality while reducing costs. Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic will join The Dartmouth Institute for … Continue reading
