Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership

Who Should Apply

The Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership program was designed for medical professionals in—or aspiring to—leadership roles focused on improving clinical quality and patient safety through informatics. This includes medical doctors, nurses, administrative leaders, policy makers, researchers and other industry professionals. Candidates should indicate any doctoral or master’s-level degrees they may hold.

To convey a sense of the scope of inquiry and innovation demonstrated by recent Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership program participants, here are the titles of some recently completed capstone projects:

• Reducing patient waiting times in the outpatient departments: A strategy to improve health care quality
• Decreasing length of stay in the emergency department by optimizing radiology throughput
• Process optimization to improve operating room efficiency by reducing day of surgery cancellation
• Reducing inappropriate hospitalization for patients with acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis
• NeoGuide: Digital clinic guideline and decision support platform for neonatal intensive care
• Introduction of a streamlined care pathway and stewardship for the management of trial of labor after cesarean section 
• Supporting care at home for end stage COPD patients; development of an extended care paramedic protocol
• Reducing gaps in caregiver knowledge and awareness on transmission-based precautions (TBPs) for their hospitalized children
• Reducing workplace injuries through early identification and personalized care plans for patients with responsive behaviors due to dementia
• Improving nurse’s awareness rate on the patient’s condition