Engaging Learners in Health System Quality Improvement Efforts

Quality Improvement Efforts in Pediatric Oral Health.

Quality improvement (QI) and measurement are increasingly used in health care to improve patient care and outcomes. Despite current barriers in oral health measurement, there are nascent QI and measurement efforts emerging. This paper describes the role that QI and measurement can play in improving oral health care delivery in clinical practice by presenting a QI initiative that aimed to test a...

Crossing the quality chasm: lessons from health care quality improvement efforts in England.

The second report from the US Institute of Medicine Crossing the Quality Chasm, highlighted the deficiencies in health care quality in the USA, analyzed the contributory factors, and proposed 13 recommendations for improvements. Clearly, the challenges are enormous. Can anything be learned from the experiences of other countries? This article describes the author's experiences of health care qu...

Engaging Learners in an Enterprise L&K System

We describe a system being designed for a leading provider of enterprise learning solutions, to improve engagement among learners. The system consists of an engagement timing component which estimates a learner’s level of engagement and likely preferred interaction times, and a recommendation component which generates personalized content recommendations. We summarize early results from a recen...

Engaging Learners Through Wikipedia

Engaging clinicians in quality improvement initiatives: art or science?