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Leaders Never Stop Learning: A Conversation with IHI’s New President and CEO, Maureen Bisognano

Thursday, September 9, 2010
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Time

Featuring:

Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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Here's the thing about IHI's new President and CEO, Maureen Bisognano: she has unshakable optimism. And it's not because she wears rose-colored glasses or is looking at a different health care world than the rest of us. No, Maureen’s optimism is fed by her regular contact with some of health care's most reliable sources: patients and families, frontline providers, leaders — all of whom know first-hand where the problems lie and where the opportunities reside. They also share Maureen’s belief, honed by over 25 years’ worth of experience working to improve patient care, that the next barrier is only as formidable as you make it. The questions always need to be, “What new processes can you test?” “What new skills are needed?” “Who haven’t you included in the discussion?”

Talk to anyone who has met Maureen, and they’ll tell you she is a leader for our times; she’s keenly aware of every vexing and hard-nosed cost and policy issue the US health care system especially is facing, and clearer than ever how IHI and the quality improvement movement can and must provide a path forward.

WIHI host Madge Kaplan is pleased to welcome Maureen to the studio for a candid discussion about these issues and more. Opportunity has knocked for health care reform in tandem with quality and patient safety like never before, and we invite you to engage with Maureen and share your comments and questions on this first, exciting WIHI of the fall season.

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Welcome to WIHI

How to Join

WIHI is an exciting "talk show" program from IHI, connecting you to the cutting edge of health care improvement. It’s free, it’s timely, and it’s designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care.

Every other week, IHI will bring you a 60-minute show free of charge, that will help health care improvers worldwide stay on top of the latest thinking and strategies for improving patient care. You can tune in “live” through your computer or telephone, or listen to recordings of the broadcast later at your convenience. Your host, IHI’s Madge Kaplan, has years of experience as a health care reporter for public radio, but may be best known as “the voice” of the 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives Campaign conference calls. Please join us!

WIHI programs use WebEx technology. There are three ways to join:

Via computer alone. You can access the audio through your computer speakers or headphones and can submit comments or questions via the chat function in WebEx.
Via telephone alone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program, but will not have access to chat functions.
Via computer AND telephone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program and the chat functions as well.