Which way forward for the quality improvement and patient safety movements? Join IHI’s President and CEO, Donald Berwick, MD, for a series of conversations with IHI Director of Communications, Madge Kaplan. Each monthly installment offers Dr. Berwick’s latest thinking on the major issues of the day and how health care professionals, health care leaders, and patients and families can bring about significant reform.

Listen to the audio discussions:

 Goals to Guide Future Improvers [April 2008] (8:30)

 Resourcing Health Care [March 2008] (5:03)

 True Health Care Reform [February 2008] (5:37)

 The National Forum Points to New Possibilities in Quality Improvement [January 2008] (8:01)

 Prospecting for Health Care Reform [November 2007] (6:22)

 The Energy of Many at the National Forum [September 2007] (8:09)

 Public Reporting, Provocation, and Purpose [August 2007] (7:40)

 The Health Care System the US Could Afford [July 2007] (7:36)

 Front-line teams and hospital trustees build a new, shared vision of patient safety in the 5 Million Lives Campaign [June 2007] (5:57)

 Learning from Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Hospitals [May 2007] (3:04)

 From Malawi and Back: Making Sense of Resources, Health Care Costs, and Performance [Apr 2007] (8:38)

 Public Policy, Partnerships, and Setting Aims [Mar 2007] (7:20)

 The Power of Transparency and True Consumer Engagement with Health Care Quality [Feb 2007] (5:30)

 Lessons from a Forum and Launching the 5 Million Lives Campaign [Jan 2007] (11:24)

 The Triple Aim, Global Health, Governance, and Dialoging with Skeptics [Dec 2006] (22:33)

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