WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: January 26, 2017 Featuring: Derek Feeley, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, IHI What are your plans to improve patient safety in 2017? Are they hospital-specific or do they extend across the continuum of care? Are they proactive or reactive? Is the work part of an overall system of safety, knitted together by an engaged staff, a thriving safety culture, and continuous learning? However you answer these questions, IHI is heading into the new year more determined than ever to help hospitals and health systems make greater gains in reducing harm to patients, anchored by a renewed focus and new framing.  ​ Who better to explain all this than IHI President and CEO, Derek Feeley, and IHI President Emeritus, Don Berwick. Derek was eager to talk about six principles that organizations can use to guide their safety work going forward. Among them: Shifting from a mindset of preventing things from going wrong to m