11th Annual Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice & the Community, March 7-9 in Washington, DC.

• Keynote Speakers: Elliott Fisher, Robert Pearl, Doug Eby, Joanne Lynn, and more...

• 50+ Sessions on the Medical Home, Health IT, Population Health and other critical topics.

• Join Passport and help your front-line teams make rapid improvement with unlimited access to Expeditions.

• Passport exclusive: Skill building calls for middle managers leading quality improvement.

• Coming soon: Customized dashboards and a self-assessment tool.

• Join a free webinar on March 30 to learn how to use the IHI Improvement Map™  to streamline your work.

• Take an eight-minute video tour of the Improvement Map.

In the Spotlight

• Atul Gawande discusses the surgical checklist on the February 3 Daily Show with Jon Stewart (segment begins at 15:01).

• Join Author in the Room [free] on March 17 to hear Frank Davidoff discuss his recent JAMA article on “heterogeneity.”

• What has nursing got to do with safety and quality? Plenty, says IHI's Maureen Bisognano in a new Healthcare Executive article.

• Don’t miss the December 2009 issue of Academic Medicine. Themed “Quality and Safety in Medicine,” it includes articles on training of medical students and residents, mortality, the MGH quality and safety journey, and more.  

• The healing power of hospital design featured on public radio’s Marketplace. Listen to the story.

• NEW! Multidisciplinary Rounds How-to Guide: Learn how to increase care coordination and reduce length of stay.

• The Project Fives Alive! Team visits sites in Ghana working to reduce child mortality. Read their stories from the road.

• NEW! IHI Innovation Series White Paper: Reducing Costs Through the Appropriate Use of Specialty Services

• In the News: Selected weekly health care news items.

IHI Strategic Initiatives

• Appropriate Use of Specialty Care Services
• Developing Countries (South Africa, Malawi, and Ghana)
• How Do They Do That?™ Low-Cost, High-Quality Health Care
• Improving Patient Care Program (Indian Health Service)
• Reducing Avoidable ED Visits
• Safer Patients Initiative (UK)
• Scottish Patient Safety Programme
• STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR)
• Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)
• Triple Aim™