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March 12, 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.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is offering a special option for those not able to be in Paris April 8–11 for the 2014 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. By registering as a “virtual delegate,” you can still learn from the best in quality and safety: At your convenience, you’ll be able to watch more than 50 live and on-demand sessions, selected from the three main Forum days.
Want to take advantage of this flexible option? Click here and enter the discount code “Knowledge19” at the prompt during registration. The deadline to sign up is March 31.
Last week, we let you know about IHI’s tour of mobile health clinics, which was about to journey down the East Coast through Boston, New York, and Washington DC. With the tour complete, it’s time to reflect on the adventure and what we learned. Click here to view photos of every tour stop and learn about:
Innovative ways mobile health clinics are engaging communities to co-produce better health
Community health workers’ and mobile clinics’ keys to success
How mobile health clinics can help reduce health disparities
The clinics and organizations that participated in this special tour
IHI’s Director of Communications, Madge Kaplan, whom you know if you’ve ever tuned into IHI’s online talk show, WIHI, gives it to you straight. Her recent story in Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, which details her 12-year experience as a long-distance caregiver for her ailing father, is true to form: honest and insightful. “There’s a tendency [for authors who write about caring for chronically ill loved ones] to put the best spin on the experience,” she says “…I find myself wondering when the author last talked to a caregiver at her wits’ end—emotions and finances drained, logistics spiraling out of control.” Click here for the full story.
Join us in congratulating Jay Kumar, a Chapter Leader alumnus of the Harvard Open School Chapter, for his efforts in launching the Harvard Medical Student Review, an online student-run and peer-reviewed medical journal. Its mission is to “provide a platform for students to contribute to important issues facing health and medicine through a variety of formats, including scholarly articles, editorials, and original artwork.” Click here to visit the new journal and submit your own piece, and read more in an article from The Harvard Crimson.
Connect to the Health Foundation’s upcoming free webinar on “Quality Improvement — The Role of Context and How to Manage It” on Thursday, March 13 at 11:30 AM EST/4:30 PM GMT as part of their Improvement Science Webinar Series. The webinar will explore why context needs to be taken into consideration when attempting improvement, and what skills best help professionals to manage context effectively. Click here to learn more and register for this free offering.
