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Hospitals and health systems across the country have stepped up in unprecedented ways to meet the challenges of COVID-19. They expanded intensive care capacity, developed COVID-19 units, and ramped up testing efforts as physicians and other health care workers continue…
Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS) joined the ABMS Portfolio Program in 2013. In recent years, a growing number of its Portfolio Program quality improvement (QI) activities have aligned with its Quality Institute’s system-wide initiatives. Engaging MCHS clinicians in both enables…
Partners HealthCare (Partners), an integrated health system founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in 1994, has been an ABMS Portfolio Program Sponsor since 2011. During the past eight years, Partners has submitted 388 improvement efforts, in…
The Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership (OPIP) strives to improve the health of children and youth throughout the state. As a sponsor in the American Board of Medical Specialties Portfolio Program®, OPIP enables participating health care providers to earn Maintenance of…
The key to engaging physicians in meaningful quality improvement (QI) and practice improvement (PI) initiatives is to determine what is meaningful to them, noted Grant Lynde, MD, Associate Professor and Chief of Practice and Process Improvement in the Department of…
By Sean Powell, MD, a practicing family medicine physician in the San Diego-based Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Director of Medical Education for The Permanente Federation — In medical school and residency, the acquisition of new knowledge and its…
Dr. Roger Bush, a general internist at Neighborcare Health, discusses quality improvement efforts as a way to put physicians in a position of influence in their workplace. “Quality improvement efforts allow doctors to solve a problem and keep it solved,”…
Dr. Annette Donawa, Assistant Dean and Director at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Office of Continuing Medical Education, explains how the ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program will help to improve the care of their patients and streamline its physicians’…
Mary Ales, Executive Director of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, talks about how the ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program aids in their objective to provide quality patient care, saying that the program “has been a tremendous opportunity for us to extend…
Dr. Morris Blachman, an Associate Dean at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, explains how participating in the ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program has helped to improve both physician performance and patient safety, saying “it provided an opportunity to…