Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle Four. You can find the other circles here. Next to this circle that’s somewhat of a subset of Perversion above, where we set numeric …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle Three. You can find the other circles here. Our next ring down is rife with strange behaviours. Elementary school teachers are furiously erasing wrong …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle One. You can find the other circles here. Seeing a rhino in the clouds, a looming set of eyes on the floor tiling, or …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley begins his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle One. You can find the other circles here. If a picture contains a thousand words, then you could say a graph of healthcare data …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle Seven. You can find the other circles here. Down to the next circle, where we see a negative consequence of abundant data available at …
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By Oona Hayes We are facing significant, complex problems in health care, and we know there are no simple answers. Quality improvement science acknowledges that changing one part of a system will destabilize other parts. We must define and refine …
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By Dr. Cole Stanley I’m sitting here at 36000 feet somewhere over the Pacific, on a long-haul flight with no WIFI, and I can finally sustain some focus. My team has given me no easy task this month: write an …
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By Dr. Oona Hayes Quality improvement (QI) work and data-driven practice improvement are vital tools that support Joy in Work, lifelong learning and system improvement. Clinician engagement with data-driven practice improvement is also one of the priorities of the Family …
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The challenges and pay-offs of growing your team and infusing QI at its core By Dr. Cole Stanley Foreword: Here I try to pull together my thoughts on the importance of a team-based care approach in primary care, and what …
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By Dr. Oona Hayes Most readers will agree that health care delivery is undergoing serious change. Working through time of change can be challenging but inspiring. I’m excited to work with an organization that supports continual improvement and reflection. The …
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