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.

• Use the IHI Improvement Map™ tool to set your improvement priorities, organize your work, and optimize your resources.

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

In the Spotlight

• The US health care system is a “cottage industry,” say Swensen, Berwick, Clancy, et al. in a new NEJM Perspective.

• Partners In Health is working in Haiti to help those affected by the earthquake. Learn more about how you can help.

• Don Berwick’s JAMA editorial tackles comparative measurement of physician performance.

• Future clinicians are in search of patient safety and improvement skills. Read why in the New York Times.

• IHI’s Maureen Bisognano is a featured speaker on improving quality while reducing costs at the HFMA Executive Conference.

• A new book, While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention, explains how public health works with success stories and profiles of safety and health improvement.

• Middle managers play a vital role in improving patient safety. Read more in IHI's Healthcare Executive article.

• IHI Innovation Series White Papers: Increasing Efficiency and Enhancing Value in Health Care; IHI Global Trigger Tool

• 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™