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.
True partnerships with patients are difficult to develop. In a new IHI Open School video short, Barbara Balik, RN, explains some of the barriers to building partnerships with patients — both on the level of the provider-patient relationship and on the level of an organization. Learn more about person- and family-centered care in our course PFC 101: Dignity and Respect.
Burned into Dr. Atul Gawande’s memory is the patient who should have gotten a CT scan and didn’t. But he can’t remember a single CT scan he ordered unnecessarily. In his latest article in The New Yorker, Dr. Gawande explores overuse in the health care industry and how no-value care is harming patients, both physically and financially. “Millions of people are receiving drugs that aren’t helping them, operations that aren’t going to make them better, and scans and tests that do nothing beneficial for them, and often cause harm,” he writes. Learn more in our course QCV 100: Introduction to Quality, Cost, and Value.
In Boston, the lilacs are in bloom, and it’s once again time to update the Open School on your activities this year through the Annual Chapter Progress Report. What’s in it for you? Your Chapter’s response helps the Open School better support you in the coming year, makes you eligible for Chapter event sponsorship, and allows you to maintain your active status in the IHI Open School Chapter network. Just one report needed per Chapter, and the report is now available in Spanish. The deadline to submit your Report is June 1, but why wait? Submit today!
Are you interested in building relationships with other Open School Chapters? Is your Chapter looking to engage in community-based projects? Join us for our next call, on Thursday, May 28 at 12 PM ET, for tips from West Coast Regional Leader Kelsey Priest and Southwest Regional Leader Jake Reynolds. Did you miss our last Global Call, on using Open School courses in your Chapter activities? We’re offering an edited podcast of the call (just 26 minutes) that you can listen to directly from your phone.
