Quality Improvement
The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand's health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand's health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
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Interpretation of the concepts of enterprise-wide and best of breed IT within the New Zealand eHealth community
posted by Research Admin on 30 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Rebecka Janols, Karen Day, Martin Orr.
Health Care and Informatics Review Online, 17(1), 11-17.
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Case Study
Implementing shared decision making: Clinical teams’ experiences of implementing shared decision making as part of the MAGIC programme (UK)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 10 Apr 2013
The Health Foundation’s MAGIC (Making good decisions in collaboration) improvement programme aims to support clinical teams in primary and secondary…
Document
Patient safety campaign aims to save lives and reduce harm
posted by Alastair McLean on 23 May 2013
New Zealand’s national patient safety campaign, Open for better care, was launched in Auckland last week. The campaign identifies simple…
Document
Healthier Hospitals Initiative: 2012 milestone report
posted by Research Admin on 7 May 2013
The Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) is a United States national campaign to implement a new approach to improving environmental health…
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Making integrated care happen at scale and pace (England)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 5 Apr 2013
The UK government has made commitments to promote integrated care. The aim of this paper, published by the King's Fund,…
Event
Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa / Māori Medical Practitioners Association Hui a Tau & Scientific Conference
posted by HIIRC Admin on 25 Mar 2013
The Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa Board is hosting the 2013 Hui-ā-Tau and Scientific Conference at Massey University, Mount Cook…
International Literature
Rating providers for quality: a policy worth pursuing? (England)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 8 May 2013
The Nuffield Trust was commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health to review whether ratings of provider performance should…
International Literature
The changing national role in health system governance: A case-based study of 11 European countries and Australia
posted by Research Admin on 26 Apr 2013
This study of 12 countries, provides an overview of recent changes in national governments’ role in the governance of health…
NZ Literature Abstract
Clinical and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand: Rapid emergence of Sequence Type 5 (ST5)-SCCmec-IV as the dominant community-associated MRSA Clone
posted by Research Admin on 29 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Deborah A. Williamson, Sally A. Roberts, Stephen R. Ritchie, Geoffrey W. Coombs, John Fraser, Helen Heffernan.
PLoS ONE 8(4), e62020.
News Item
Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
posted by HIIRC Admin on 9 Apr 2013
The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers…
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Documents
- Enabling people to live well: Fresh thinking about collaborative approaches to care for people with long-term conditions (UK)
- Patient safety campaign aims to save lives and reduce harm
- Evaluation of the first year of the Inner North West London Integrated Care Pilot (England)
- Section 88 Maternity Service Payment Changes
- Integrating human factors with infection prevention and control (UK)
Tools
- Falls video compilation (HQSC)
- NHS self assessment resource for creating dementia friendly hospitals (UK)
- Guide for developing a consumer experience framework & Consumer experience toolkit
- Cloud computing - A guide to making the right choices (Privacy Commisioner)
- Use of cloud computing for managing health information (IT Health Board)
Events
- The 2013 Harkness Report-Back Seminar: Strategies to Improve Care Integration - Lessons From Rural Patient Centred Medical Homes (Auckland)
- 3rd Australasian Compensation Health Research Forum 2013 (Sydney)
- Today's Research: Tomorrow's Health Registration - Women's and Children's Health (Palmerston North)
- 2nd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control 2013 (Switzerland)
- BC3 - Breast Cancer Coordinated Care (U.S.A.)
Projects
- Electronic MDM (Multi Disciplinary Meeting) Tool - Northern Cancer Network
- ‘Shared care’ health records now on-line in ED - Wairarapa DHB
- National Policy Framework: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention in adult hospitalised patients in NZ
- Reducing Inequalities (Central Cancer Network)
- Regional Multidisciplinary Meeting Development
Case Studies
- Implementing shared decision making: Clinical teams’ experiences of implementing shared decision making as part of the MAGIC programme (UK)
- A simple intervention to improve awareness and documentation of foot examination at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (UK)
- Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)
- Broad approach to eliminate error-prone medication abbreviations
- National research project will provide valuable insights into impact of ED target
NZ Literature Abstracts
- The role of the emergency department in the acute management of chronic or recurrent pain
- Patient and family experiences of palliative care in hospital: What do we know? An integrative review
- New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators 2011
- New Zealand National Hand Hygiene Compliance Audit: March 2013
- Evaluation of the Midlands Health Network Integrated Family Health Centre (IFHC) model of care: Phase II report
International Literature
- In situ simulation: Detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department (U.S.A.)
- Multi-morbidity: A system design challenge in delivering patient-centred care (Australia)
- How to improve change of shift handovers and collaborative grounding and what role does the electronic patient record system play? Results of a systematic literature review
- Types of interventions used to improve hand hygiene compliance and prevent healthcare associated infection (UK)
- Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work (UK)
Discussion
- More children having B4 school health checks
- APAC Forum (Auckland)
- Reorienting the New Zealand health care system to meet the challenge of long-term conditions in a fiscally constrained environment
- Gore leads nation in adopting healthcare robots (NZ Herald)
- A survey of primary care doctors in ten countries shows progress in use of health information technology, less in other areas