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August 20, 2014
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.
What is the true cost of a health care test? What’s the difference between cost and value? What does resource stewardship have to do with health care?
In a new introductory course, QCV 100: An Introduction to Quality, Value, and Cost in Health Care, the IHI Open School explores these and other questions. The one-lesson course (the first Open School course written primarily by students) starts by distinguishing between cost and value, and explaining how both of these concepts relate to quality. It introduces students to the growing problem of health care spending, as well as the health care practitioner’s role in managing these costs. Finally, it explains how to identify and overcome barriers to providing high-value, cost-effective care.
Take the course, which is the 24th in the growing IHI Open School catalog. And be sure to check out a blog post about why two University of Toronto medical students (and their professor) felt compelled to spend dozens of hours during the last six months creating the course.
Are you planning to attend this year’s IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, taking place December 7–10 in Orlando, Florida? If so, don't just sit on the sidelines! Here are two ways for Open School members to share their work:
Among completed storyboards we receive by October 1*, we will select four students to present during a special storyboard walk-around session — and win free admission to the Forum!
*Note: For students not applying for the walk-around session, the final deadline to submit storyboard proposals for the Storyboard Reception is November 14.
Contribute to a special interest keynote: Former Open School Regional Leader Dr. Lakshman Swamy, a medical resident at Boston Medical Center, needs your help. He’ll be presenting as part of a special interest keynote, “My Hopes for Health and Healthcare.” The style is Pecha Kucha, meaning Swamy (who will share the stage with ten other QI champions) will have six minutes — and 20 images — to tell a story.
How can you help? Show how the IHI Open School has improved your health care education journey. Send Swamy your photos and stories so that he can include them in his presentation. Email Lakshman Swamy at lswamy@gmail.com.
Those of you who were at this year’s Student Quality Leadership Academy will remember Dr. Neel Shah, the founder of Costs of Care, an organization that strives to protect patients from unnecessary medical expenses. On the next WIHI, Shah will join a panel of experts who will walk us through ways patients and their caregivers can both become more cost-conscious and, together, make better decisions. Tune inThursday, August 21, 2–3 PM ET.
Iora Health is partnering with the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science to offer an exciting opportunity, in which physicians will gain training and experience to become the next generation of physician-innovators. The one- to two-year fellowship program includes these opportunities and more:
20 months of primary care practice at an Iora practice
Two one-month rotations at other Iora practices
Dedicated graduate-level study of value-based health care delivery, leading to a Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) degree from Dartmouth College
Regular mentorship by Iora Health’s CEO
Experiential training in leadership, business, management, public speaking, and technology development
