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Posts Tagged: patient safety
August 15, 2016
Selecting New Topics for 2017
Thank you to all who gave us input on selecting new topics. We discussed all these suggestions at our July meeting, decided on six, and will narrow this down to three final topics in September. The topics coming out of July’s meeting are: – Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia – Addiction – Blood and Blood Product…
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August 1, 2016
From Concept to Contracting: How One Purchaser Uses Bree Best Practice Recommendations to Achieve the Triple Aim
Replacing a joint—especially a knee or hip—is a procedure that millions of Americans need each year. It can give people a mobility and freedom from pain they haven’t enjoyed in years. It’s also a procedure that lends itself to a lot of variation. If best practices aren’t followed, it can lead to complications and hospital…
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July 5, 2016
Why Value-Based Purchasing?
We think of value-based purchasing as a philosophy pushing our health care system to provide better care at a lower cost to help us all live healthier lives. Most of the health care that we receive today is fee-for-service, where clinicians, hospitals, and others are payed for the number of services they provide. Across the…
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June 1, 2016
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Every year our members select three new topics and each year we also spend time reflecting on our previous work, our successes, and how we can improve. This year we will be asking our members to reflect on the Bree Collaborative and would also like to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill…
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April 18, 2016
Bringing Transparency and Quality Standards to Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery causes your body to lose weight by limiting the amount of food your stomach can hold. This weight loss surgery is becoming increasingly common. Our State’s health care leaders and Bree Collaborative members asked us to look into helping to make this surgery safer and more standard across Washington State. The Centers for…
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April 1, 2016
Help Us Implement Our Recommendations
The Bree Collaborative is hiring! Since being founded by the Washington State Legislature in 2011, we have developed eight reports and recommendations, three bundled payment models and warranties, and two endorsements. With all this great work and with the support of Healthier Washington, we are focusing on implementation of our recommendations across Washington State and…
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March 14, 2016
Join us this Wednesday, March 16!
The Bree Collaborative is meeting this week – Wednesday, March 16 from 12:30 – 4:30 at the beautiful Waterfront Activities Center on the University of Washington Campus. Join us for coffee and hear how we are working together to improve Washington State’s health care system. Agenda is here. Members will be voting on final adoption of our Oncology Care Report…
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March 3, 2016
Starting Work on How Antipsychotics are Prescribed to Kids
One of our new workgroups for 2016 will look into how and when antipsychotic medications are prescribed for children, adolescents, and teens. Among the types of medications that can change brain function, antipsychotics have great potential for being prescribed too often or at too high a dose. These drugs are often prescribed for aggressive or…
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February 1, 2016
Help Us Improve Oncology Care
The public comment process is a huge part of what makes our recommendations work. We want everyone who is interested, but especially patients, to read our recommendations and let us know what works, what doesn’t work, what makes sense, and where we should push our healthcare system even further. Our Oncology Care workgroup has been…
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December 1, 2015
Spotlight on Community Partners: Washington Patient Safety Coalition
As we head into the Holiday season and New Year, we look back at the great work done in 2015 and are thankful for the dedication and persistence of our Bree members and many community partners. The best example of this comes from our November meeting. Despite being interrupted by a fire alarm and having…
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