The IHI Open School is an innovative learning community where you can take free online courses, earn certificates, network with peers and experts, and gain confidence and skills in quality improvement and patient safety to change health care.
The IHI Open School was founded in 2008 to improve health care. Today, we know we need to do more — we need to improve health. That’s why we’re offering a new course, Leadership and Organizing to Improve Population Health. This eight-week, free course will equip you with leadership skills to work across professional boundaries to make an impact in your community. Learn how to tell stories about what motivates you, and inspire others to take collective action. The next course offering is February 19–April 16, 2015, and the deadline to apply is this Friday, Jan. 30.
The IHI Open School team is planning our new content for the year, and we’d like your input to better serve you. We’ve developed a short survey for students, professionals, and faculty advisors who use our online courses, videos, and other resources. Help us improve by taking five minutes to answer the nine-question survey by Feb. 13.
What happens when health care is organized around providers, rather than patients? Too often, patients and their families become de facto project managers at a time of incredible stress. It doesn’t have to be this way. Pioneers have shown that integrated, patient-centered health care is possible. In a new article in Harvard Business Review, IHI’s Kedar Mate and Kaiser Permanente’s Amy Compton-Phillips describe how health systems can organize their work to improve patients’ health.
Working to improve health in primary care and communities? The 16th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community, taking place in Dallas, Texas, on March 15–17, 2015, can help. More than 1,000 thought leaders from around the globe will examine new ways to improve care delivery and coordination across the continuum. We’ll explore how individuals and communities can improve health and lower costs within our changing health care system.
Scholarship funding is available to allow students, faculty, and residents to attend at a significant discount.Learn more here.
Florentina Teodarascu, a medical student at the University of Toronto, won a full ride to IHI’s 26th Annual National Forum last year with an essay about her quality improvement (QI) project at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Now, she’s published a piece in Hospital News, a Canadian health care newspaper, arguing that students can be agents of change through QI. “Quality improvement education is a crucial first step towards delivering the health care changes needed for a better tomorrow,” she writes. Read Florentina’s piece here, and learn more about how to conduct your own QI project with help from IHI Open School faculty.
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The IHI Open School was founded in 2008 to improve health care. Today, we know we need to do more 
Florentina Teodarascu, a medical student at the University of Toronto, won a full ride to IHI’s 26th Annual National Forum last year with an 
