21st Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

• Enroll on or before October 2 and save $100.

• Submit an application to share your improvement story as a poster.  

• Can't attend in person? Participate virtually via On Demand or satellite broadcast.

• Get the latest on the Improvement Map, including news about the tool IHI is prototyping.

• Become a Charter Member of Passport, our new membership program to help hospitals make the most of the Improvement Map.

• Join informational calls to learn about the array of upcoming programs and opportunities.

In the Spotlight

• ABC’s Dr. Timothy Johnson speaks with Don Berwick about the challenges of altering health care in the US.

• What should be the health care reform priorities in the US? Don Berwick and others share their visions in the New York Times.

• A new article describes how the IHI Improvement Map helps hospitals chart an improvement path with key processes that lead to better patient outcomes.

• Read testimony by IHI Senior Fellow Tom Nolan to the US Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs about quality management.

• The New York Times Well blog continues to discuss Don Berwick's Health Affairs web exclusive, What "Patient-Centered" Should Mean.

• NEW IHI Innovation Series White Papers: Increasing Efficiency and Enhancing Value in Health Care; IHI Global Trigger Tool (2009 Update)
• IHI Results Reports: Early Goal Directed Therapy Reduces Sepsis Complications and Mortality (PeaceHealth); Staff Education and Compliance with Pressure Ulcer Prevention Strategies (Onslow Memorial Hospital)

IHI Strategic Initiatives

• Appropriate Use of Specialty Care Services
• Chronic Care Initiative (Indian Health Service)
• Developing Countries (South Africa, Malawi, and Ghana)
• Reducing Avoidable ED Visits: A Triple Aim Initiative
• Safer Patients Initiative (UK)
• Scottish Patient Safety Programme
• STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR)
• Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)
• Triple Aim