Chapter Meeting

This evening over 25 students, faculty, and health professionals attended the inaugural general meeting of the University of Michigan chapter of IHI. We had a great turnout from a wide variety of professions, including representatives from the medical school, dental school, school of public health, law school, and business school. During the meeting, we discussed what values were most important in providing health services to patients and how to address and reduce the incidence of medical mistakes. In addition, we listened to a couple clips from Don Berwick as he introduced the group to IHI (video) and described his requirements for a surgeon who would operate on his knee (transcript). Our next meeting will be in March - details to be announced soon. Hope to see you there!

Healthcare Blogs

At this evening's IHI meeting, Jonathan showed how blogging can be used as a tool to stay up-to-date with developments in the health care domain. He created a file that you can use to import these blogs into Google Reader so you can read them at your convenience: google-reader-subscriptions.xml. The list of blogs is as follows:

Health-related

Health Affairs Blog – Health policy blog that contains critiques of the Obama/McCain health plans (http://www.healthaffairs.org/blog/index.php?feed=rss2)

Health Care Industry – Explains business concepts of healthcare
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/bnet/healthcare)

Health Care Renewal – Addresses threats to health care's core values (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default)

Health Management Rx – Comments on health management (of course) and patient care processes of the future. (http://feeds.feedburner.com/HealthManagementRx)

Medgadget – Source of new medical innovations/inventions (http://www.medgadget.com/atom.xml)

ScienceRoll – Written by a Hungarian med student who is interested in genetics and Web 2.0 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Scienceroll)

The Health Care Blog – Conglomeration of numerous promoters of Health 2.0 (http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/rss.xml)

WSJ.com: Health Blog – Up-to-date information about health-related news (http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/health/feed)

Not health-related

Lifehacker – Contains tips and downloads for getting things done. (http://www.lifehacker.com/index.xml)

TED Blog – A best of the best blog. Their annual conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives. (http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/atom.xml)

Welcome!

Welcome to the IHI blog website. We have created this as a portal for those who are interested in learning more about the IHI movement and as a newsletter for those within the group. We hope to use it often to communicate with members, promote opportunities for improvement, and solicit participation in IHI activities. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the group, please contact IHI-support@umich.edu.