Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Spreading Changes

	Expert Host
	Sarah W. Fraser "When we talk about spreading innovation, we have to be careful about how we define the word 'innovation.' Although we recognize that people often need to reinvent locally, we don’t want people to invent locally when in fact solutions are already out there that they can copy." (See Commentary.)

	Case for Improvement
		Achieving breakthrough performance in any area of an organization is a significant accomplishment. But a more important and often more perplexing challenge remains: how to spread the success to other facilities or departments. The content in the "Spreading Changes" section is designed to help organizations establish structures and practices that promote and support successful spread of changes throughout their systems.

	In the Spotlight
		NEW BOOK! Spreading Improvement Across Your Health Care Organization This new book from Joint Commission Resources and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement shows how to contribute to or lead the spread of good ideas and practices in health care organizations and systems to accelerate improvement. Spreading Improvement Across Your Health Care Organization is the first book on spread in health care. Nolan and Schall describe the Framework for Spread, and chapter-length case studies show how to apply the framework in practice. Learn More A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change IHI Innovation Series White Paper A key factor in closing the gap between best practice and common practice is the ability of health care providers and their organizations to rapidly spread innovations and new ideas. This white paper describes the major spread projects that IHI has supported, and harvests the lessons learned about the most effective ways to spread change. Learn More