Boston, MA — Employee performance review season is often met with feelings of dread for what can be viewed as an ineffective or unnecessary process. But a new study from Ariadne Labs suggests that for surgeons, feedback from their coworkers may hold greater value than they realize and provide an indicator for the quality of… Continue reading Poor Communication and Teamwork from Surgeons Linked with Increased Likelihood of Malpractice Claims
Faculty Invited to Submit Applications for Ariadne Labs Spark Grant The next great idea to improve health and well-being for all is often waiting on the edges of health care, beyond the spotlight of flashier approaches. These are not necessarily new drugs or technologies, but rather innovations that change how health care should be delivered.… Continue reading Faculty Invited to Submit Applications for Ariadne Labs Spark Grant
Hospitals, clinics, health care associations, and hospital systems are continually exploring new ways to strengthen patient safety. Ariadne Labs and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive and Continuing Professional Education are collaborating to offer a new custom course, Creating High Impact Tools to Improve Clinical Effectiveness, to enable organizations to create and use checklists for better quality… Continue reading Ariadne and HSPH offer new custom course on checklist design and use for quality and safety
Boston, MA — When an emergency arises during surgery, research has shown that surgical teams complete significantly more of the life-saving steps needed to manage the event if they use an OR crisis checklist than when relying on memory alone. Helping surgical teams reach for the checklists when a crisis arises requires a supportive environment… Continue reading Planning and Support Critical to Introducing Life-saving Tools in the OR
Yves Sonnay is the Assistant Director of Project Management, Safe Surgery/Safe Systems Program. He supports leadership to create a scalable and sustainable portfolio of work for the program that includes efforts to improve the safety, accessibility, and appropriateness of surgical care around the world. In collaboration with the Director of the Safe Surgery Program, he… Continue reading Yves Sonnay
For Immediate Release: April 6, 2018 BOSTON – Health system mergers, acquisitions, and affiliations can expose patients to significant, unintended harm if clinical leaders do not adequately plan for and manage safety risks. To address this largely unrecognized issue, Ariadne Labs and CRICO/Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions today released a new set… Continue reading New tools aim to protect patient safety during health system mergers and acquisitions
How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon’s precision. He shares what he’s found to be the key: having a good coach to provide a more accurate picture of our reality, to instill positive habits of thinking, and to break our actions down and then… Continue reading Want to get great at something? Get a coach.