WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

November 8, 2018  Featuring: ​Brent C. James, MD, MStat, Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Senior Fellow, IHI; Former Chief Quality Officer, Intermountain Healthcare Kedar Mate, MD, Chief Innovation and Education Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Kavita P. Bhavan, MD, MHS, Associate Professor Infectious Diseases, UT Southwestern; Medical Director, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Clinic, Parkland Health & Hospital System  Clinical and administrative leaders in health care know how difficult it is to shape one, unifying workplace culture. And while interdisciplinary team-based care is becoming more common in health systems, the range of people taking care of patients perform their jobs based on very different professional backgrounds and training.  Can quality improvement (QI) break down these silos? Can it nurture a new kind of culture, where QI is the knowledge that unites clinicians in the common pursuit of bett