This year, the IHI Open School launched our very first course on health equity — a small step toward the Institute of Medicine’s aim to make care equitable for all people. The course was the result of work by the IHI Diversity and Inclusion Council, co-chaired by Alex Anderson, a researcher on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Innovation Team. We asked Alex five questions to learn more about how the course came about, how he became an advocate for diversity and equity as a white man, an ... read full post

Students present their work at the IHI Open School Chapter Congress.Whew. The IHI Open School team is back in our Cambridge office after our biggest event of the year — the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. Last week, more than 5,000 health leaders descended one of the world’s largest Marriott hotels, in Orlando, Florida, to teach and learn from each other. We heard from writer and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD; Good Morning America host and cancer survivor Robin Roberts; and Don ... read full post