The Collaborative Forum » EHR http://www.thecollaborativeforum.com Blogging to transform healthcare. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Simple Solutions Keep Coming Out on Top http://www.thecollaborativeforum.com/302/thevaluequadrantofhealthcarereform/chroniccaremanagement/simple-solutions-keep-coming-out-on-top/ http://www.thecollaborativeforum.com/302/thevaluequadrantofhealthcarereform/chroniccaremanagement/simple-solutions-keep-coming-out-on-top/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:55:44 +0000 Randy Williams http://www.thecollaborativeforum.com/?p=302 Right before Christmas, Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a prolific writer at The New Yorker who writes about the problems and challenges of modern medicine, published a book titled The Checklist Manifesto–How to get things right.

The gist of the book is that by employing simple checklists in hospitals, procedures are performed with fewer complications and patients get healthier. Gawande has been making the rounds on The Daily Show, PBS’ News Hour with Jim Lehrer, NPR and other media outlets promoting his book and discussing the remarkable success checklists can produce. (more…)

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