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The United States is experiencing rapid growth in health care from mergers, acquisitions and affiliations. Changing health care markets and new payment models have led systems to make these broad, institutional changes to improve operational and financial stability. On September 27, 2018, at 2 p.m., Ariadne Labs researcher Dr. Susan Haas will co-lead a webinar… Continue reading Upcoming Webinar Spotlights Ariadne Labs Research on Health Care Expansion

Over the last two years, Ariadne Labs has provided technical support and facilitation for the Primary Health Care Measurement for Improvement collaborative within the Joint Learning Network. This week the Primary Health Care (PHC) Measurement for Improvement collaborative has released Measuring the Performance of Primary Health Care: A Practical Guide for Translating Data into Improvement, a… Continue reading 15 Countries Launch a Guide for Using Data to Improve PHC

BOSTON – Ariadne Labs founder and Executive Director Dr. Atul Gawande has been named the CEO of the new Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway nonprofit health care organization and will transition to a new role as chairman of Ariadne Labs. He will remain a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at… Continue reading Ariadne Labs founder Atul Gawande transitions to chairman and becomes CEO of new health care organization

Ariadne Labs, Stanford University and other leaders in anesthesia patient safety launched the Emergency Manuals Implementation Collaborative (EMIC) in 2011 to circulate emergency checklists for hospitals, health care associations and other medical experts. This week, EMIC is hosting its first webinar series, starting with “Customization and Modification of the Operating Room Emergency Checklist” on June… Continue reading Webinar this Week on Customizing Operating Room Emergency Checklists

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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

As countries work toward universal health coverage, Costa Rica offers a successful model of bringing higher quality, more affordable primary health care to those who need it. The Ariadne Labs Primary Health Care team has provided new insight into how Costa Rica’s health system became a model for the world in a new report, “Building… Continue reading The Costa Rica model: high-quality affordable primary health care for all

Center to Advance Palliative Care, Vital Talk and Ariadne Labs Collaborate on New National Strategy to Rapidly Improve the Care of Serious Illness BOSTON — Quality of communication between clinicians and patients is a major factor in the delivery of high-quality healthcare to Americans with serious illness. Communication between providers and patients has the largest… Continue reading New Communications Skills Pathfinder Portal to fill training gap for clinicians treating seriously ill patients