Press Release: Quality Colloquium at Harvard Features the IHI Open School for Health Professions
  • Click here to download the Colloquium Brochure
  • A Hybrid Conference, Internet Event and Training Tool
  • An Executive Education Course on Patient Safety, Healthcare Quality Enhancement and Medical Errors Reduction for Healthcare Executives, Clinicians and Patient Care Staff
  • Onsite at Harvard University's Annenberg Hall, Cambridge, MA
  • Colloquium Hotels: The Inn at Harvard and Harvard Square Hotel
  • August 17 - 20, 2009
  • Online In Your Own Office or Home live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months
  • www.QualityColloquium.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.QualityColloquium.com

FEATURING THE IHI OPEN SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

With a special session on:

IHI Open School for Health Professions: Engaging the Next Generation of Health Professionals in the Improvement Community

Jill Duncan, RN, MS, MPH
Director, Open School for Health Professions
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Cambridge, MA



SPONSORED BY


CO SPONSORED BY
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP)
American College of Medical Quality
American Society for Quality, Health Care Division
Association of Medical Directors
of Information Systems
Australian Patient Safety Foundation
BioResearch Compliance Report
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
Drug Safety
Health Technology Center
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
International Society for Quality in Health Care
Irish Society for Quality & Safety in Healthcare
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Joint Commission Resources
Journal for Healthcare Quality
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
Medical Home News
National Association for Healthcare Quality
National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Patient Safety Agency
National Quality Forum
Partnership for Patient Safety (p4ps)
Patient Safety Institute
Predictive Modeling News
Safety Institute, Premier Inc.
(URAC) American Accreditation HealthCare Commission

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FEATURING
  • Assuring Quality and Patient Safety in a Time of International Economic Crisis
  • The Potential of Comparative Effectiveness Research in Driving a Quality and Safety Agenda
  • Quality and Incentives: Value-Based Purchasing, Pay for Performance and Transparency
  • Teams and Team Communication (Transitions of Care)
  • A Systems Approach to Quality Improvement - Six Sigma and Beyond
  • The Role of Leadership, Governance and Workforce Development in Patient Safety
  • Special Opportunities for Advancing a Quality and Safety Agenda through the IT Stimulus Funds
  • The Role of Built Environment on Patient and Provider Safety and Well Being
  • The Role of Patient Safety and Quality in Health Reform

  • THE VENUES AT HARVARD
    GRANTORS
    SILVER

    BRONZE

    ADDITIONAL


    PATIENT SAFETY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

    WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE - JUNE 18, 2009: The Eighth National Quality Colloquium, www.QualityColloquium.com, will be held on August 17 - 20, 2009, on the campus of Harvard University.

    THE EIGHTH ANNUAL QUALITY COLLOQUIUM
    August 17 - 20, 2009

    ONSITE
    Harvard University
    Cambridge, MA


    OR
    ONLINE
    In your own office or home live via the Internet
    with 24/7 access for six months


    COLLOQUIUM CO CHAIRS

    Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS
    Chief Medical Officer, DocsNetwork, Ltd., Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Symphony Corporation, Chair-Elect, HIMSS, Boston, MA

    David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP
    Dean and Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor Health Policy, Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

    Paul Wallace, MD
    Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs, Senior Advisor, The Care Management Institute and Avivia Health, The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
    COLLOQUIUM AND PATIENT SAFETY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM CO CHAIRS

    Paul Barach, MD, MPH
    Director, NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre (IRMRC), Acting Head, School of Risk and Safety Science, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD
    Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    AND PATIENT SAFETY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FACULTY

    Davis Balestracci, MS
    Principal, Harmony Consulting, LLC, Portland, ME

    Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN
    Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC
    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
    Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD

    John P. Glaser, PhD (Invited)
    Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA

    Brent James, MD, MStat
    Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Vice President Medical Research and Continuing Education, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT

    Thomas Valuck, MD, MHSA, JD (Invited)
    Medical Officer and Senior Advisor, Center for Medicare Management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
    HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND PATIENT SAFETY

    Terry Borman, MD
    Medical Director, Luther Midelfort Mayo Health System, Eau Claire, WI

    Joseph Britto, MD
    Chief Executive Officer, Isabel Healthcare, Inc., Reston, VA

    Jonathan Einbinder, MD, MPH
    Corporate Manager, Quality Data Management, Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, MA

    Janet Marchibroda
    Chief Healthcare Officer, IBM, Former Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative, Former Executive Director, Foundation for eHealth Initiative, Washington, DC

    THE DRIVERS OF QUALITY

    Leah Binder
    CEO, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

    Guy D'Andrea
    President, Discern Consulting, Baltimore, MD

    Richard L. Gilbert, MD, MBA
    Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants and Quantum, Charlotte, NC

    David Levy, MD
    Global Health Sector Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, NY

    Barbra Rabson
    Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, Watertown, MA
    THE ROLE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ON PATIENT SAFETY AND PROVIDER WELL BEING

    Cheryl L. Herbert (Invited)
    Chief Executive Officer, Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin, OH

    Bill Rostenberg, FAIA, FACHA
    Director, Health Design, Anshen and Allen, San Francisco, CA

    Craig Zimring, PhD
    Environmental Psychologist and Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Board Member, the Center for Health Design, Atlanta, GA
    A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO HEALTHCARE QUALITY

    Sandy Kemmerly, MD
    Associate Head of the Section and Medical Director for Infection Control and Employee Health, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

    Sandra Trotter, MBA, CPHQ
    Director, Patient Safety Program, Stanford University Medical Center/Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
    THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP, GOVERNANCE, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, AND TRANSITIONS OF CARE IN PATIENT SAFETY

    Susan Des Harnais, PhD, MPH
    Program Director, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Jefferson School of Health Policy and Population Health, Philadelphia, PA



    Maureen Disbot, MS, RN, CCRN
    Vice President, Quality Operations, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

    Yosef D. Dlugacz, PhD
    Senior Vice President, Chief of Clinical Quality Education and Research, Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, NY

    Jill Duncan, RN, MS, MPH
    Director, Open School for Health Professions, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA

    Daniel M. Feinberg, MD, FAAN
    Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, Chief Patient Safety Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA

    Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH
    Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Director, Texas Children's Health Plan, Houston, TX

    Virginia A. Moyer, MD, MPH
    Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Chief, Section of Academic General Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

    Johnese Spisso
    Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Washington & Clinical Operations Officer, UW Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Anita L. Tucker, PhD
    Lumry Family Assistant Professor of Business Administration in Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School, Boston MA
    THE SCHOLARSHIP OF QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY

    Steve Berman
    Executive Editor, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Joint Commission Resources, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

    Susan Carr
    Editor and Associate Publisher, Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, Marietta, GA

    Kerm Henriksen, PhD
    Human Factors Advisor for Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Associate Editor, Journal of Patient Safety, Rockville, MD

    Mark W. Scerbo, PhD
    AE, Simulation in Healthcare, Professor, Human Factors, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
    LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: PATIENT SAFETY, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH REFORM

    Amy Helwig, MD
    Project Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD

    Douglas J. McClure, MIM
    Corporate Manager - Technology and Operations, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA

    William Munier, MD
    Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ, Rockville, MD

    Julius Pham, MD
    Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

    THE TIME IS NOW FOR NEW, EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVES
    TO TRADITIONAL LEARNING APPROACHES

    A variety of forces - the nation's economic crisis, costly and difficult air travel, the mandate for cost efficiency in healthcare, the proliferation of greater Internet bandwidth, the emergence of the popularity of online video via You Tube, and the explosion of online training in the health sector - has come together to create both a dramatic need and an extraordinary opportunity for innovative approaches to sharing new ideas and best practices. This Summit offers not only traditional conference attendance, but also the opportunity to attend the event live and archived online.

    How can we be expected to reform the nation's health system if we can not reform the way we do our own business?

    CONTENT OPTIONS
    TRADITIONAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
    Register for Preconference Patient Safety Boot Camp and/or Conference.

    PATIENT SAFETY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
    The Quality Colloquium is offering a Patient Safety Certificate Program in the form of an optional course within the conference for attendees wishing to take a deeper dive into the Summit's subject matter. The Program requirements are:
    • Completion of preconference readings - Click here to review pre-course reading
    • Completion of online training modules on Patient Safety
    • Consideration of a series of preconference questions - Click here to review pre-course questions
    • Attend Preconference Patient Safety Boot Camp either in person or online
    • Attend Summit either in person or online
    • Successful completion of a post-conference online examination - Click here to take sample examination.

    Attendees who successfully complete Program requirements will receive a certificate of completion.


    PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
    TRADITIONAL ONSITE ATTENDANCE
    Simply register, travel to the conference city and attend in person.

    Pros: subject matter immersion; professional networking opportunities; faculty interaction

    LIVE AND ARCHIVED INTERNET ATTENDANCE
    Watch the conference in live streaming video over the Internet and at your convenience at any time 24/7 for the six months following the event.

    The archived conference includes speaker videos and coordinated PowerPoint presentations.

    Pros: Live digital feed and 24/7 Internet access for next six months; Accessible in office, at home or anywhere worldwide with Internet access; Avoid travel expense and hassle; No time away for the office







    INTERNET INTERFACE SAMPLE

    Click here for a sample stream
    SPECIAL BENEFIT FOR PATIENT SAFETY CERTIFICATE HOLDERS:
    Participants who successfully complete the Patient Safety Certificate Program offered in conjunction with the Eighth Annual National Quality Colloquium are eligible to receive a 15% tuition discount for courses taken as part of the Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety (MS-HQS) degree program offered through Thomas Jefferson University's School of Population Health. To be eligible for this discount, National Quality Colloquium students must meet all admissions requirements for the program and must enroll by July 1, 2012. For more information about Jefferson's MS-HQS:
    www.jefferson.edu/population_health.
    THE GROUP REGISTRATION/ONLINE TRAINING ALTERNATIVE
    By arranging to license online group access to the Patient Safety Certificate Program, health care providers can implement an organization-wide online Certificate Program on patient safety. The organization's training coordinator can assign and track online participation. Successful completion of the training can be evidenced by passing the post conference certificate examination.

    HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A HEALTH SYSTEM READMISSIONS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
    SUMMIT REGISTRATION

    For Summit registration information, visit www.QualityColloquium.com/registration.html, email registration@hcconferences.com, or call 800-684-4549.


    SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

    For sponsorship and exhibit information, visit www.QualityColloquium.com/promotional/, or contact Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, at 215-599-6626 phone, 215-545-8107 fax, or joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.