Working to Achieve the Quadruple Aim - Abstracts from the Kaiser Permanente 2020 National Quality Conference.

Quality improvement activities are essential to achieving the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Quadruple Aim of improving the health of our patients and members, enhancing members' care experiences, reducing costs, and attaining joy and meaning for our physicians and care teams in the workplace. These activities are also essential in creating a learning health care system.

Perspective on Publishing Quality Improvement Efforts.

Quality improvement (QI) activities are critical to achieve the Triple Aim and to the Institute of Medicine's six "Aims for Quality Improvement": Safe, Effective, Patient-Centered, Timely, Efficient, and Equitable. These QI activities are essential to create a learning health care system. Academic publishing is critical to foster continuous QI and sharing, and yet it tends to favor more traditional research articles.

HealthPartners' online clinic for simple conditions delivers savings of $88 per episode and high patient approval.

The delivery of health care online is relatively new. However, early indications suggest that it can improve the experience of care for patients and the health of populations, along with reducing per capita health care costs. HealthPartners in Minnesota launched an online clinic called virtuwell in late 2010.