2012-2013 IHI Fellows Move On to New Challenges
 IHI Fellows often describe their year at IHI as a "learning journey." And while the Fellowship year ends this month for the 2012-2013 Fellows (left), they now begin applying what they've learned in their jobs in health care organizations "back home." The transition begins this week at IHI, as Fellows spend the next two days reporting on their year away to leaders from their home organizations, fellowship sponsors (The Health Foundation and Kaiser Permanente), and IHI's senior team. IHI has no doubt that this group of Fellows will make significant and lasting improvements to the quality of health care delivery, as so many Fellowship Alumni have done before. While this week is a bittersweet goodbye to the departing class, it's tinged with excitement about the unique impact this year's group will have in the coming years.
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Patient Safety at 30,000 Feet In-flight medical emergencies aren't an everyday occurrence, but they're not as rare as you might think. IHI Senior Vice President Dr. Pierre Barker (left), who does a lot of traveling, was recently called into action on one of his long flights, and the episode got him thinking about how airlines could improve their response to these situations. In a new blog post for the Huffington Post, he suggests that the same airline industry that has taught health care so much about how to instill a safety culture can now take a page from "its student" to bring greater reliability to how passengers in medical distress are treated during a flight. In addition to guidelines laid out in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, Dr. Barker offers some practical suggestions of his own, including having at least one on-board flight attendant with EMT training; identifying a safe place to treat patients; enhancing the "emergency kit"; improving handoffs once a plane lands; and more.
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Change Across an Entire Country: WIHI, June 20
 This September, IHI will welcome Derek Feeley, currently Scotland's Director General for Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, to its executive ranks. During Mr. Feeley's time as leader of NHS Scotland, he oversaw and steered Scotland's groundbreaking Patient Safety Programme. At IHI, he will be responsible for driving IHI's strategy across five core focus areas: Improvement Capability; Patient Safety; Person- and Family-Centered Care; Quality, Cost, and Value; and the Triple Aim for Populations. On the next WIHI (Thursday, June 20, 2-3pm ET) we'll explore how the experience of Scotland, and Mr. Feeley's leadership, will help IHI accomplish its mission of improving health and health care worldwide. IHI leaders Maureen Bisognano, Jeff Selberg, and Carol Haraden will join the conversation about how Scotland was able to achieve its impressive results, and how Scotland's experience in large-scale change can help other systems, regions, and countries improve.
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