Saturday, May 25, 2002

Pursuing Perfect Healht Care in Whatcom County, WA This is a high level view of our project plan. Details will be forthcoming in various media and arenas. The project officially begins June 1 though much work has been going on at many levels in the participating organizations. Leadership Board Oversight Use of Simulation Model to advocate for reimbursement changes Complete Initial Staffing for Project Staff Training Creation of Curriculum and Documentation of Training provided all staff Measurement Information Technology Work on Infrastructure Medication Hand-offs Work Communication and Transparency (extraordinary openness) Infrastructure Complete Diabetes Pilot Work Plan Integrate Care Managers into the Clinics and Virtual Care Team Congestive Heart Failure Pilot Work Plan Hospital Related Changes to Support Chronic Care Model Living With Chronic Illness Program Expansion Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practice Completed for Pilots Develop Evidence Based Medicine strategy and approach Develop an approach for early adopters outside the grant 9:11:17 PM     Communication and Transparency Infrastructure The Pursuing Perfection grant encourages, develops and requires Transparency. Extraordinary openness. In order to accomplish this level of openness we have the following project goals in front of us. Several are underway, even before the grant begins, June 1. Communication Plan Developed Establish Communication Team Identify current technology to support internal/external communication on Project Activities Test Technology with this Workplan Attempt to connect all sites participating across the country and in Europe with simple userfriendly web tools for communication. More later. Quarterly Community Forums Planned Extranet Web Site for Pursuing Perfection Started. More soon. Videos Developed Speakers Bureau Developed Experiment with RadioLand as long term communication solution Quarterly Community Forums 9:03:11 PM

Saturday, May 18, 2002

Links to the Great Britians National Healht Service (NHS) national performance indicators. 8:19:04 AM

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Key Components of Whatcom Consortium's approach to Pursuing Perfection in Healhtcare. Pursuing Perfection Components in Whatcom County. We will use this or a similar graphic on the home page of the future to guide users to the parts they are interested in. We will also add search capabilities by these categories... in the future, the near future I hope. 6:19:18 PM

Saturday, May 11, 2002

The key ideas behind this entire Institute of Medicine approach includes six goals: 1. Safe, 2. Effective (evidence based), 3. Patient-centered, 4. Timely, 5. Efficient, and 6. Equitable; and ten simple rules: 1.  Continuous healing relationships 2.  Customization 3.  Patient control 4.  Shared information 5.  Evidence-based decision-making 6.  Safety as a system property 7.  Transparency 8.  Anticipation of needs 9.  Continuous decrease in waste 10.  Cooperation among clinicians   4:08:03 PM

Saturday, May 04, 2002

Please read this. 11:45:23 PM

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