With a crunch on the number of resources available for healthcare improvement and a growing list of performance goals, every healthcare organization’s senior leadership team is asking more questions about how their improvement dollars are being used and which are bearing fruitful returns for the organization. Successful safety and quality executives in this time of…
Healthcare improvement accountability is often lacking, making your team’s accomplishments, frustrations, and suggestions feel unnoticed or less valuable. Whether the shortcoming is due to disorganization, plan execution, lack of data and insights, or something else, it is possible to turn that around by introducing an improvement accountability system. If you want to transform your healthcare…
Despite being arguably the most important industry for the wellbeing of humanity, changes and improvements in healthcare seem to take the longest. If you work in healthcare, you probably know this better than anyone. Healthcare improvement advocates have ideas to make processes better, but often encounter barriers to putting their plans into action. Once these…
In September 2016, we officially “launched” Beterra and it felt strange at first since we’d actually been at this for five years, working with over 200 hospitals to help measure and improve quality and patient safety as a part of the Synensys team. Our tools were and still are, being used in seven countries to…