NQF Forum Focuses on Battling Waste with Quality

Modern Healthcare
March 30, 2009

The National Quality Forum, in hosting its annual spring conference March 25-27 in the Hall of Fame’s home town, brought together leaders and organizations that have made significant strides toward creating meaningful, measurable and sustainable improvements in quality of care and safety. The quality-endorsing body hopes to highlight these successes as it tackles waste in the healthcare system...

...In addition, the common thread woven through the discussions was the desire for more health IT. Electronic health records and functions such as computer physician order entry can help cut back on communication errors and reduce waste, said Wendy Everett, president of the New England Healthcare Institute, who delivered a keynote address at the conference. The Cambridge, Mass.-based health policy think tank focuses on IT innovation and adoption as one avenue for improving healthcare quality and safety...

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