WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: August 24, 2017 Featuring: Michael Hanak, MD, FAAFP, Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Ambulatory Care & Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Rush University Medical Center Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, Founding Co-Director, Equal Health; Assistant Program Director, Brigham and Women's Internal Medicine Residency Program Abigail Ortiz, MSW, MPH, Director of Community Health Programs, Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center Amy Reid, MPH, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) While there are many ways to improve health equity, few recognize the importance of curiosity as part of this work. For instance, you may have a lot of solid data pointing to outcomes disparities in your health system by race, ethnicity, and other factors. But what's behind the numbers that may be contributing to health inequities in your specific patient population and community? Are there dynamics in play that no one's considered before? Our guests are from health system teams participating in IHI's