Diplomate Digest - The American Board of Ophthalmology Blog

One option to complete an Improvement in Medical Practice activity for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part IV credit is to design your own Improvement in Medical Practice project using a standard quality improvement methodology, such as the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. If you are connected to the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s IRIS® Registry, you are encouraged to base your project on the monthly performance rates on clinical quality measures and quality improvem

Is there something you do in your institution or practice setting that builds trust between you and your patients, your physician peers, or other patient care collaborators? If so, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation wants to hear from you. The ABIM Foundation is looking to close the health care “trust gap” and promote medical professionalism by identifying practices that foster transparency, trust, and trustworthiness, such as: disclosure of medical err

The American Board of Ophthalmology is now accepting sign-ups from up to 20 diplomates interested in piloting the development of a customized quality improvement project based on patient feedback for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) practice improvement credit. Here's how it works: Click here to register for the pilot. (Signing up now will not require you to complete the pilot. We just want to make sure we follow up with you to provide all the information and instructions y

In this 15-minute video, ABO Public Director Scott Wallace, Managing Director of the Value Institute of Health and Care at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, issues a call-to-action for the medical community to “measure what matters most”—the patient experience. “How do we return physicians to their professional mission as healers?” asks Wallace. “The answer is pretty simple—to measure more, and to measure differently.” Watch now and submit your que

American Board of Ophthalmology Public Director Scott Wallace, JD, MBA, is the managing director of the Value Institute for Health and Care at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. In collaboration with Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD, a leading expert on value creation and its integral role in improving service delivery in health care, Wallace teaches workshops on value-based health care delivery using a new case model they developed together for researching the

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a public workshop on March 13, 2017, at the National Academy of Sciences Building (2101 Constitution Avenue, NW) in Washington, D.C. to discuss short- and long-term strategies in response to the 2016 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report, Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow. This event will also be available via webcast. The workshop will bring t

A new article on PatientEngagementHIT.com suggests a uniquely low-tech way providers can improve patient safety using a method called the "teach-back." Writer Sarah Heath notes that patients don’t always understand the after-care directions given to them by their physicians, so AHRQ developed the teach-back, in which providers ask patients to repeat in their own words—or "teach back"—important information and instructions about their care. According to AHRQ, “The goal of teac