Learning and Innovation Communities provide results-focused collaborative improvement opportunities to teams with a wide range of content and improvement experience. Participants start with in-depth diagnostic and goal-setting processes and identify initial areas of focus based on their expertise in the topic and in improvement.  Teams engage in rapid testing of changes that have been shown to improve care, adapting them to their own settings, and constantly measuring the outcomes.

Learning takes place in a variety of settings:

• In-person meetings twice per year with faculty and participating teams
• Virtual learning using WebEx several times per year
• Structured teleconferences at least monthly
• Self-paced online learning
• Access to the Extranet, IHI’s private web-based work space
• Listserv communication that is available all the time to all team members and faculty