Monthly Archives: December 2004

I can’t exactly take credit for saving the world, blowing the lid off a government cover-up or destroying the credibility of Dan Rather, but I thought I would end 2004 with a link to an ABC News story naming bloggers … Continue reading →

The good folks at E-Health Insider in London today posted a story I did on National Health IT Coordinator Dr. David Brailer’s view on the National Programme for Health Information Technology, the massive project to automate records for the British … Continue reading →

There’s a new study in Annals of Internal Medicine this week, demonstrating measurable benefits in quality from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) clinical records system. VA patients in the study only got … Continue reading →

Inside the registration packet at this week’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement annual conference on healthcare quality was a flier advertising the 4th Annual National Forum for Improving Children’s Health Care, sponsored by the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality. This … Continue reading →

ORLANDO, Fla.—As promised, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement today announced its 100,000 Lives Campaign, aimed at preventing 100,000 accidental deaths in hospitals between now and June 2006, and another 100,000 in each subsequent year, by enlisting an estimated 1,600 to … Continue reading →

ORLANDO, Fla.—Kaiser Permanente today announced that it is setting up an $8 million endowment to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to fund scholarship programs. Kaiser officials say that the scholarships will allow healthcare professionals to attend IHI programs, such as … Continue reading →