HealthPartners, an integrated health system in Minnesota, has been at the forefront of reducing racial and economic disparities in health care. Starting in the 1980s, HealthPartners recognized the need to provide quality care equitably across populations, including vulnerable people such as refugees. In this video, Beth Averbeck, MD, Associate Medical Director for Primary Care at HealthPartners, describes the organization’s journey toward measuring and reducing health disparities and explains why health systems across the United States will increasingly need to address disparities in their care.

Earlier this month, IHI published the secrets to achieving the Triple Aim — that is, better care for individuals and better health for the population at a lower cost — in an article in The Milbank Quarterly.  In a new blog post, IHI Executive Director and article co-author Niñon Lewis outlines key findings of the study that describes how a wide variety of health care organizations successfully implemented the Triple Aim. We hope the learnings will be helpful to leaders who are looking to start or strengthen their own Triple Aim projects. New to the Triple Aim? Learn more in our course TA 101: Introduction to Population Health.

Three years ago, Josh Adams traveled the country doing interviews for medical school. Again and again, the schools talked about the importance of interdisciplinary education. But three years later, he wonders if it was all hype. Josh turned to the IHI Open School to learn about working across health professions because, he writes, “nowhere in the 50 credit hours of classes that governed my life was there any formal interdisciplinary education.” In a new article in the journal Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, Josh argues that it’s high time for interdisciplinary education to be a requirement, not a buzzword. Learn more in our course PS 103: Teamwork and Communication.