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To help celebrate this year’s milestone, we reached out to some key leaders in health care, whose contributions to the National Forum have been integral to its success and its staying power, and invited them to share their thoughts about the Forum, the state of health care improvement, and the new challenges ahead.

Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the IHI National Forum

Leaders in health care share their thoughts on celebrating 25 years of the IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care.
Stakeholders in the mid-Atlantic region of the US are collaborating with the understanding that they are “in a common system with a common pool of limited resources,” and that acting as adversaries does not help anyone. The initiative is still in its early stages, but a framework for success is emerging.

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Overcoming Barriers to High-Value Health Care

IHI's Lindsay Martin, Don Berwick, and Tom Nolan describe an IHI initiative in which regional stakeholders are collaborating to achieve the Triple Aim.
Each year at IHI's National Forum, hundreds of teams present storyboards on their improvement work — all submitted storyboards are available online.

QI Storyboards at IHI's National Forum

Hundreds of storyboards presented and displayed at the National Forum are also available online — get a sneak peek!
In a new post to Leading Health Care Innovation, Feeley writes that changes driven by the Affordable Care Act, especially the emphasis on providing accountable care, will require health care organizations to shift their focus to value of care, which depends on less waste, less variation, and better health.

Budget Constraints Can Lead to Improved Quality and Value

Many are concerned about the effects budget constraints will have on health care quality, but IHI's Derek Feeley sees an opportunity to improve.
In our newest online course, created in collaboration with Dr. Anthony DiGioia, Medical Director of the Bone and Joint Center at Magee-Womens Hospital and the PFCC Innovation Center of UPMC, you’ll learn five steps for using shadowing to better empathize with patients and families, and see how empathy can create urgency to drive change.

PFC 102: A Guide to Shadowing

This new course introduces you to patient and family shadowing, a valuable exercise to help health professions students and health care professionals better empathize with patients and families, and drive change.

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IHI Resources: CMS Partnership for Patients

Check out the numerous free IHI resources on Partnership for Patients topics, such as How-to Guides and Mentor Hospitals.

Next on WIHI: IHI's Free Audio Program

WIHI's 2013 Year-in-Review

Listen to popular broadcasts like The Latest on Hand Hygiene and Navigating New Care Teams with Nurse Practitioners.

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Also in the Spotlight

Redesigning care for frail elders: A new blog post by Asan Akpan, geriatrician and former IHI-Health Foundation QI Fellow
Read the winning essay by Brandon Lynch, recipient of this year’s David Calkins Memorial Scholarship to the IHI National Forum
Increasing demands for quality measurement: An article in a JAMA co-authored by IHI Executive Quality Leaders Network members