VPQ Learning Community

November 6, 2007
SPEAKERS

• Frank A. Federico, RPh, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, works in the areas of patient safety, application of reliability principles in health care, and perinatal care. He is faculty for the IHI Patient Safety Officer Executive Training Program, and previously co-chaired a number of Patient Safety Collaboratives. Prior to joining IHI, Mr. Federico was the Program Director of the Office Practice Evaluation Program and a Loss Prevention/Patient Safety Specialist at Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Affiliated Institutions, and Director of Pharmacy at Children's Hospital, Boston. He is one of the Executive Producers of "First, Do No Harm, Part 2: Taking the Lead."
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• Reliability theory — a scientific method of evaluating, calculating, and improving the overall reliability of complex systems — has been embraced by and used effectively in industries such as manufacturing, nuclear power, and aircraft carriers to improve the rate at which a system consistently produces superior outcomes and prevents adverse events.
  
  
• Reliability theory provides a way to examine a multi-component process and increase the probability that the system will perform its intended function in the required time under commonly occurring conditions. The challenge for health care is to put this theoretical construct into practice.
  You'll learn how to:
  • Utilize the principles of reliability as a tool to plan improvement projects
  • Implement reliability design to improve care at your organization
  • Connect reliable design to rapid testing of changes
  • Improve key processes through reliability improvement strategies

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