Podcast interview with Dr. Robert Wachter and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi: Part 1
January 22nd, 2010 by
David E. Williams of the Health business blog
Patient safety pioneer Dr. Robert Wachter is Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi is Director of Quality. They have recently re-engineered UCSF’s medical peer review process and adopted an electronic platform from Acesis to make the process faster, safer and more objective.
In Part I of our podcast interview, Vidyarthi and Wachter provide an overview of the traditional process and discuss their progress in shifting to a new, technology-enabled process. They discuss key principles of their approach, along with the relationship between culture and technology.
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