Focus Area: System Transformation

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Strengthen Health Systems to Deliver Quality Care

Co-design and manage systems to support sustained improvement in quality and outcomes. IHI collaborates with your teams to strengthen the culture, learning systems, and workforce capabilities that enable lasting transformation and measurable results throughout your organization.
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System Transformation

What is System Transformation?

Health systems are expected to improve quality, safety, and outcomes while meeting ongoing operational demands. 

System transformation addresses this gap by taking a holistic view and integrating quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement into a coordinated approach that strengthens how care is delivered, measured, and improved across the organization.

IHI supports system transformation by pairing two complementary frameworks: the Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care and the Psychology of Change Framework.

Why It Matters

Why System Transformation Matters

IHI collaborates with your teams to strengthen the culture, learning systems, and workforce capabilities that enable lasting transformation and measurable results throughout your organization.

Organizations that pursue system transformation are better equipped to:

Build a shared sense of purpose so quality becomes a collective, organization-wide commitment. 
Apply systems thinking to understand interdependence and address root causes instead of symptoms. 
Create opportunities for collective learning and dialogue where teams can safely surface challenges and generate new ideas. 
Strengthen reflection and personal inquiry so individuals can recognize assumptions and adopt more adaptive ways of thinking. 
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How IHI Helps Health Systems Deliver Sustainable, Patient-Centered Transformation

IHI CareOS

IHI CareOS connects clinical care, operations, and analytics in real time helping care teams reduce variability, improve outcomes, and address the root causes of clinician burnout.

Whole System Quality

From governance to frontline care, IHI implements a holistic approach to quality management that aligns system-wide goals and builds improvement capabilit.

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Why Change Is More Than a Good Idea

In this video, learn why successful change requires more than a strong idea or technical solution. Kate Hilton explores the human, social, and organizational factors that shape how people experience change, and how leaders can build the understanding, commitment, and capability needed to turn improvement efforts into lasting results.

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