WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: February 25, 2016   Feauturing: Leonard D’Avolio, PhD, Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care; CEO and Co-founder, Cyft Kedar Mate, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement If you’re going to measure, as we know health care improvers must do, you’re going to generate data. But in a world where there increasingly seems no end to what can be tracked and quantified and analyzed, there’s a real danger of creating a lot more data than you truly need. It’s great to have the data, and electronic health records are making it easier to obtain and store tons of information, but now what? How can it be put to good use? Will it make patients safer and healthier? Will it help determine where the gaps are? Reduce visits to the ED? Increase visits to primary care? If you’re starting to wonder what you’re doing with all your data, you might want to listen to this WIHI.    Our guide for this discussion is someone who’s been doing a lot o