Health Care Blog January 16, 2025
When I attended the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2024 annual forum in Orlando, Florida, one of the best parts of the conference, as always, was talking to the other attendees. Every time I would sit down to eat a meal or sit down in a session, I would talk to the people around me. And I heard about so many different quality improvement (QI) projects!
After several conversations, I started to notice a pattern: Many of the projects were fighting an uphill battle because they were going against financial incentives. Or, at a minimum, they were not supported by financial incentives. All of this got me thinking about a new exhaustive, mutually exclusive categorization . . .
All QI projects...