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Mayo Clinic Key In To QualityAuthor: Mayo Clinic, Timothy Morgenthaler and Sheri Nemec
A podcast focusing on health care quality, experience and affordability trends and solutions, offering some first steps toward improving quality challenges in your organization. Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. and co-host Sheri Nemec, M.S. invite Mayo Clinic experts to share insights about innovative work to drive excellence in quality, safety, experience, and affordability, and to explore some of the biggest challenges in healthcare quality. Tune in to learn more about #MayoKeyintoquality Language: en Genres: Business, Health & Fitness, Management, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Making medication movement visible
Episode 103
Tuesday, 6 October, 2026
Medication preparation and delivery involve numerous people, systems and handoffs — many of which are difficult to see. When a medication cannot be located at its scheduled administration time, nurses and pharmacy teams may spend valuable time searching, interrupting workflows and potentially delaying patient care. In this episode of Key in to Quality, pharmacy and nursing colleagues share how they identified this visibility gap and adapted existing real-time location system (RTLS) infrastructure to help track selected medications between pharmacy preparation and administration. By integrating location information into familiar electronic health record workflows, teams can more quickly determine the last known location of a medication, reducing unnecessary searching and remakes. The conversation explores how multidisciplinary collaboration, limited initial testing and an iterative approach helped move the work from an idea to a sustainable workflow. The guests also share lessons for other healthcare organizations, including starting with existing infrastructure, focusing on high-value use cases and involving the people who perform and support the work. Ultimately, the project demonstrates a fundamental principle of quality improvement: Before teams can improve a complex process, they first need to make the invisible visible. Host: Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/timorgenthaler/Host: Sheri Nemec| https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheryl-sheri-nemec-a627982a/#mayokeyintoquality
