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The Future Of Healthcare Delivery, Ryan Cvelbar

Osmosis Magazine

The advancement of modern technology is a perpetual cycle that enhances the current ways in which we live and our quality of life, while also improving upon older technological conceptions. Just recently, virtual reality (VR), has risen to the top as a result of the media’s fascination with the profound level of sophistication with which the product operates. The first concept of virtual reality was developed in 1968 by Ivan Sutherland. Since then, Sutherland’s rudimentary invention has blossomed, as have its potential applications in life irrespective of the entertainment industry with which it is most commonly associated. Specifically, virtual reality’s …

Chronic Disease Management: How It And Analytics Create Healthcare Value Through The Temporal Displacement Of Care, Steve M. Thompson, Johnathan Whitaker, Rajiv Kohli, Craig Jones

Finance Faculty Publications

The treatment of chronic diseases consumes 86% of U.S. healthcare costs. While healthcare organizations have traditionally focused on treating the complications of chronic diseases, advances in information technology (IT) and analytics can help clinicians and patients manage and slow the progression of chronic diseases to result in higher quality of life for patients and lower healthcare costs.

We build on prior research to introduce the notion of temporal displacement of care (TDC), in which IT and analytics create healthcare value by displacing the time at which providers and patients make interventions to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. We propose …

Healthcare, The Environment And Biomedicine, Ahkar Phyo Phyo, Suraj Bala, Mason Barrett, Jack Connelly, Lucy Cummins, Claire Fuller, Hannah Gorga, Jonathan Huang, Dowha Karar, Katrina Kuhn, Elizabeth Lopez-Lopez, Carolina Montoya, Liz Narwold, Lindsay Pett, Shruti Police, Grace Ann Robertson, Rachel Schuman, Virginia Sun, Katie Wall, Ivy Zhong

SSIR Presentations 2019

The final SSIR project aim: To better understand the factors that impact student well-being at the University of Richmond, with a focus on those that raise happiness and reduce stress.

Goals and questions included:

● To find statistically significant data that correlates to who the happiest spidURs are
● Tried to separate student groups to identify individual factors
● Sought out students who had lowest stress, highest happiness

Healthcare Performance Improvement And High Reliability: A Best Practice Methodology, Randle D. Raggio, Kerry Johnson, Carole Stockmeier, Clarence S. Thomas Jr.

Marketing Faculty Publications

Healthcare Performance Improvement (HPI) improves reliability in healthcare by helping organizations achieve and sustain high performance outcomes in safety, quality, and satisfaction. Safety is the core value of the healthcare organization. Yet safety – protection from harm – doesn’t just happen. HPI provides a method for reducing the Serious Safety Event Rate through translating safety from a core value to specific behavior expectations of leaders, staff, and physicians. The HPI method and techniques are based on the best practices of high-reliability organizations (such as nuclear power and aviation) that get it right in safety. While healthcare has focused on traditional …