Can't attend the IHI Forum in Florida? No problem! Join the Forum conversation via livestream and gain access to all of our main stage events, including our keynotes and spotlight sessions.
Any Forum attendee who purchases the livestream pass may watch these mainstage events the day of, or they will be available for 90 days following the conclusion of the Forum.
Allyson Felix reigns as the most decorated American Track & Field Olympian of all time. She officially retired from her competitive running career in the summer of 2022, with thirty-one global medals at the Olympics and World Championships, and titles as both a World Record Holder and a Master’s World Record Holder. In 2020, Felix broke records after winning her bronze and gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. She continued to make history during the games by sporting racing spikes created by her company Saysh. Publicly launched post Games in June 2021, Saysh not only aims to create an encouraging and supportive community for women, but it also designs and manufactures athletic-inspired footwear made for and by women. Off the track, Felix is a fierce advocate for maternity rights for all women. In 2019, she wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times that called out Nike, her former sponsor, for not providing guaranteed protections for pregnant athletes and new moms. During the 2020 Olympics, Felix alongside her new sponsor Athleta, created the Power of She Fund: Child Care Grant – a fund to assist mom-athletes with childcare while competing at the games. Felix has also been appointed to the Board of Directors of Comanche Biopharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel therapy for the treatment of preeclampsia. Allyson brings her valuable experience and unique perspective as a preeclampsia survivor, successful entrepreneur and advocate for maternal health. Felix currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Peter Lee, PhD, is Corporate Vice President of Research and Incubations at Microsoft. He leads Microsoft Research and incubates new research-powered products and lines of business in areas such as artificial intelligence, computing foundations, health, and life sciences. He speaks and writes widely on science and technology trends. Before joining Microsoft in 2010, he was at DARPA, where he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. Prior to that, he was a professor and the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the Boards of Directors of several institutes for the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. He served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and led studies for PCAST and the National Academies. He has testified before both the US House Science and Technology Committee and the US Senate Commerce Committee. With Carey Goldberg and Dr. Isaac Kohane, he is the coauthor of the book, “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond.”
Kedar Mate, MD, is President and Chief Executive Officer at IHI, President of the IHI Lucian Leape Institute, and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. His scholarly work has focused on health system design, health care quality, strategies for achieving large-scale change, and approaches to improving value. Previously Dr. Mate worked at Partners In Health, the World Health Organization, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and served as IHI’s Chief Innovation and Education Officer. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and white papers and has received multiple honors, including serving as a Soros Fellow, Fulbright Specialist, Zetema Panelist, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. Dr. Mate graduated from Brown University with a degree in American History and from Harvard Medical School with a medical degree.
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE, is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) an organization he co-founded and led as President and CEO for 19 years. He is one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care quality and improvement. In July 2010, President Obama appointed Dr. Berwick to the position of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which he held until December 2011. A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and as a member of the staffs of Boston’s Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has also served as vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first “Independent Member” of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association, and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM, formerly the Institute of Medicine, or IOM). Dr. Berwick served two terms on the IOM’s governing Council, was a member of the IOM’s Global Health Board, and currently chairs the NAM Board on Health Care Services. He served on President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. His numerous awards include the 2007 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, the 2006 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, and the 2007 Heinz Award for Public Policy. In 2005, he was appointed Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the highest honor in the UK for non-UK citizens. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific articles and six books. He also currently serves as Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
SP01: Coaching Leaders in Improvement: Unwrap the Story by Asking Questions and Listening
Learn how to prepare for a coaching session by connecting with others, deepening understanding of the challenge, and elicit insights and solutions through a process guided by tools and resources. Exploring the human side of improvement more deeply, in this session you will both watch demonstrations of coaching and practice using the tools in pairs. It is through this practice of inquiry and asking open and honest questions (and more) that you learn to uncover people’s own motivations and ideas for solutions. This truly brings together the art and science of improvement.
After this session attendees will be able to:
1. Discover key skills associated with the art of coaching.
2. Illustrate the use of open and honest questions.
3. Role-play a coaching session.
SP02: Climate and Health Care: Decarbonizing our Health Care Systems
Climate change poses the single greatest public health threat of the 21st century. As significant contributors to the climate crisis and responsible for attending to its health impacts, health care systems face urgent calls to take action in reducing their carbon footprint and protecting their communities from climate vulnerabilities. Recognizing the urgency for action, a growing number of health care leaders are working to mount a strategic response to mitigate and adapt to climate realities while building community resilience.
Join Kathy Gerwig, author, senior advisor to Health Care Without Harm, and faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as she leads a panel discussion on the role health care can and must play in decarbonizing the sector.
After this session attendees will be able to:
1. Discuss the role health care plays in contributing to the global climate emergency.
2. Identify the responsibilities of health care leaders to tackle the climate crisis.
3. Describe steps health care systems can take to begin decarbonizing.
SP03: Exploring How to Design Data Systems to Meet the Needs of Whole System Quality
Most clinicians working in healthcare systems struggle to get access to the right data, at the right time, for the right purpose. Even when data is easily available, it’s often presented in a form that isn’t ideal, or that is overwhelming.
This session will explore the relationship between data and whole system quality. Each component of whole system quality has a unique set of needs with respect to both qualitative and quantitative data. The session will work through each practice of whole system quality (e.g., quality planning, control, improvement, and assurance), and describe the ways in which data can best be made available and appropriately utilized. We will draw on examples from the field to illustrate how innovative approaches to data to support whole system quality are being tested and refined.
After this session attendees will be able to:
1. Identify the data needs for the different components of whole system quality.
2. Discover the latest learning about different solutions that have been developed to meet data and quality needs.
3. Develop an understanding of an organizational journey with evolving data access and processes for whole system quality.
SP04: How Organizations Are Using the National Action Plan to Revitalize Safety
Despite decades of efforts in safety, preventable health care harm remains a major challenge. While much focus has centered on circumscribed projects to address harm, progress is incremental and susceptible to setbacks. Radical change is needed to eliminate preventable harm and sustain improvements.
Safer Together: A National Action Plan (NAP) to Advance Patient Safety--the "total systems safety bundle"--offers a path for safety and quality leaders to meaningfully reset and advance safe, reliable, and equitable care and strengthen system resilience across care settings. Created by 27 national organizations and associations, including 6 federal agencies, the NAP provides recommendations, an organizational assessment tool, and implementation guidance to improve safety.
This session will spotlight safety leaders and organizations that have successfully deployed the NAP, and will address their rationale, approach, and results from two years of implementation. If you're seeking to reorient your organization’s approach to safety and advance progress from piecemeal to transformational, you’ll leave this session with a blueprint for achieving constancy of purpose in safety.
After this session attendees will be able to:
1. Describe foundational focus areas and actions to hardwire and advance total system safety.
2. Characterize opportunities, results, lessons learned and resources to support NAP deployment.
3. Discuss at least one change idea to reset and fortify your organization's safety strategy.
SP05: Breaking the Rules for Better Care
In February 2023, the IHI Leadership Alliance members, Healthcare Improvement Alliance Europe, and global members led the third iteration of the “Breaking the Rules for Better Care” initiative, in which leaders were encouraged to ask their patients and staff a simple question: ‘if you could break or change any rule in service of better care experience for patients or staff, what would it be?’ Executive leaders collaborated to solicit and then take action on the myths, habits, and outdated “rules” that get in the way of the care experience. Over 154 organizations participated in the Breaking the Rules for Better Care coalition, and in one week over 600 rules were identified.
During this session, IHI Leadership Alliance members and global partners will share their experiences collecting rules, addressing (and breaking!) those rules within their organizations, and leveraging collective action on regulations that are harmful to care or wasteful of limited resources. Included will be “lessons learned” and a summary of the most common rules submitted, as well as tools and resources to begin breaking rules at your own organization.
After this session attendees will be able to:
1. Identify learnings from the IHI Leadership Alliance’s global “Breaking the Rules for Better Care” coalition.
2. Discover how to both solicit and respond to rules that are impeding high quality, safe and equitable care, and workforce joy and well-being.
3. Provide a framework for categorizing the most common rules and themes.
View the full IHI Forum 2023 Agenda here.
Physician 7.75
Nursing 2
Pharmacist 4
CPPS Recertification 5
Social Work 6
Quality Professionals 5
Livestream attendees will be able claim Continuing Education credits for livestream participation based on profession and credit type.