Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 18th National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

Whether you are new to improvement or a frequent National Forum attendee, we have a track for you. We have sessions for Fundamentals, Masters, and our new Behavioral Health Care track.

December 10 and 11: The National Forum offers Learning Labs and Minicourses, which are extended, highly interactive sessions. Learning Labs last for a half-day, while Minicourses are full-day sessions.

December 12 and 13: The two-day General Conference features four plenary presentations, more than 100 workshops, a full resource Exhibition Hall, the National Forum Bookstore, quality improvement storyboards, and numerous opportunities for networking.

Pre-Conference: Sunday, December 10

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM	Registration
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM	International Attendee Meeting
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	National Forum Orientation
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Learning Labs

Pre-Conference: Monday, December 11

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	National Forum Orientation
7:00 AM - 6:30 PM	Registration
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM	Minicourses and Scientific Symposium
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Cocktail Reception in the Exhibit Hall

General Conference Day 1: Tuesday, December 12

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Registration/Continental Breakfast/National Forum Orientation
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Plenary: Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Break
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Session A
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM	Session B (repeated from A)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch/Posterboard Display
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Plenary: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, PhD, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Break
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Session C (not repeated)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Cocktail Reception in Exhibit Hall/Posterboard Display

General Conference Day 2: Wednesday, December 13

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Plenary: David Whyte, Poet
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Break
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Session D
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM	Session E (repeated from D)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Plenary: Lawrence L. Weed, MD, President and Founder, PKC Corporation

Special Interest Breakfasts

Wednesday, December 13, 7:00 AM - 7:45 AM

Network with colleagues who face the same issues you do. These are optional sessions and do not carry any continuing education credits.

SIB 1 Elimination of Healthcare Disparities in Surgery: Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) Experience

SIB2 Preventing Medication Errors: The IOM Report

SIB 3 Sepsis: The Next Mortality Reduction Initiative

SIB4 Safety Rounds in CCU by Local Leaders Provide a Reliability Check at the Bedside

SIB5 Creating a Culture of Safety: Leaders Embrace Change

SIB6 From Cacophony to Symphony: Orchestrating Harmonic Performance Improvement Approaches

SIB 7 Toward Spreading Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health Care

SIB 8 Collaboration, Content, and Consensus: Building Standardized Evidence-based Care Processes and Order Sets into CPOE

SIB9 Hospital-wide Patient Monitoring: the Real-time Hospital

SIB10 Breakfast of Champions: A Frank Discussion of Excellence

SIB11 Fellowship Programs at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

SIB12 Leadership at a Time of Challenge

SIB13 Understanding “Lives Saved” – A Look Inside the Data

SIB14 Quality Improvement Projects in Developing Countries

SIB15 The NQF Safe Practices: Join the Quality Choir

SIB16 Simple Strategy to Engage Physicians in QI