PSQH: The Podcast Episode 119 – Advancing Nursing Innovation Through Virtual Care
On episode 119 of PSQH: The Podcast, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) VP Patricia McGaffigan and Dr. Marguerite Cunningham, Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Inova Health, talk about the IHI’s nurse-led pilot rapid cycle improvement program. This interview was recorded at the IHI Forum in Orlando.
Patricia A. McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is IHI’s senior sponsor for the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety and President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety. She is the former Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Safety Programs at the National Patient Safety Foundation. McGaffigan is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), a graduate of the AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship Program, and a member of the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Committee, the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Editorial Advisory Board, and the Advisory Committee of the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis. She serves as a Board Member of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors and on Planetree’s Person-Centered Certification Committee. McGaffigan represents IHI on numerous committees, taskforces, and professional panels and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences. A recipient of the Lifetime Member Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, she received her BS in Nursing from Boston College and her MS in Nursing from Boston University.
Dr. Marguerite Cunningham is the Vice President, and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer for Inova Health System where she leads multidisciplinary teams in the transformation of the electronic health record (EHR) to improve clinical care delivery, promote better patient outcomes and decrease healthcare costs. She has extensive experience, education and certification in leadership and the field of Nursing Informatics including Nurse Executive-Advanced (NEA-BC), Nursing Informatics (NI-BC), and is a national presenter on Informatics and health IT topics.
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