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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

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

 Boston, MA — Overdose deaths claimed more than 64,000 lives in 2016 in the United States. That’s more than the number of HIV and AIDS-related deaths in 1995 at the peak of the epidemic. While many players have had a hand in the U.S. opioid crisis, two leaders in the medical and public health… Continue reading Murthy and Gawande call for health care professionals to play a leading role in curbing opioid epidemic

This article was originally published in the International Doula, Volume 26 Issue 1. By Jessica English, AdvCD/PCD/BDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE

BOSTON — Seven leading health systems from around the country have joined with Ariadne Labs, the Center to Advance Palliative Care and VitalTalk in a pioneering new collaborative to transform care for individuals facing serious illness. The new Implementation Collaborative provides health systems with the roadmap, tools and support to bring Ariadne Labs’ innovative Serious… Continue reading New collaborative aims to improve communication between clinicians and patients with serious illness

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