Order from Chaos: Accelerating Care Integration

Report of the Lucian Leape Institute Roundtable on Care Integration

Health care today presents a difficult challenge: as our ability to recognize and treat disease continues to grow, so too does the complexity of delivering those solutions to each patient and to populations. Too often, care integration–the planned, thoughtful design of the care process for the benefit and protection of the patient—is lacking. This report, the result of a Roundtable that brought together the insights of various stakeholder groups, addresses the issue of care integration with the aim of outlining the major barriers to effective integration and providing a framework for further consideration and action among stakeholders.

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Health Information Technology and Patient Safety: A Dynamic Discussion

Proceedings of the Third Annual Lucian Leape Institute Forum & Gala, September 16, 2010

The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation (LLI) hosted a symposium to bring together LLI members and health care leaders to consider the potential effects of HIT implementation on patient safety, focusing on the Institute’s six transforming concepts,each deemed to be an integral component in advocating for patient safety. Over the course of an afternoon’s discussion and an evening presentation by David Blumenthal, MD, MPP,National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with the Department of Health and Human Services, participants engaged in a lively and provocative interchange. The proceedings strive to capture the discussion.

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Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care

Ten years after the Institute of Medicine’s landmark 1999 report To Err Is Human, the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation released a white paper finding that US medical schools are not doing an adequate job of facilitating student understanding of basic knowledge and the development of skills required for the provision of safe patient care. Unmet Needs is the culmination of three LLI roundtable discussions and makes key recommendations for reforming medical education in order to improve patient safety. The paper is the first in a planned series of such reports on issues that the Lucian Leape Institute has identified as top priorities in ongoing efforts to improve patient safety.

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Transforming Healthcare: a Safety Imperative This paper outlines measures necessary in reforming and improving the safety of the healthcare system. It was featured in Quality and Safety in Health Care, a British Medical Journal publication, as the Editor’s Choice

The Patient Safety Imperative for Healthcare Reform (2009)

Position statement issued in October 2009 by the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation. Institute members call for health care reform and outline specific recommendations designed to bring about transformational change in the health care system. Read the statement.