The IHI Forum program brings together thought leaders, visionaries, and improvement experts from around the globe for over 150 sessions, workshops and presentations across 10 topic tracks covering pressing topics in improvement and patient safety:
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Building Improvement Capability
Strengthen capability for improvement by embedding a culture of continuous improvement throughout a system.
Chief Quality Officer
Collaborating with peers to explore the systems and structures fortifying strategic quality initiatives. Delve into the influential forces of people, policies, and practices shaping the forefront of the field.
Digital Today, Digital Tomorrow
Recognizing in today's rapidly evolving health care landscape, technology is more than just a tool; it's a catalyst for unprecedented change. Sessions address how AI, advanced analytics, and digital technologies are disrupting and enhancing every facet of health care, including actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of the digital health care landscape.
Equity
Improving systems changes to ensure everyone has the opportunity to attain their full health potential, including improving access, quality, and/or health and well-being outcomes with communities that have been systematically marginalized based on characteristics linked to discrimination or exclusion, and improving for all; naming racism and other forms of oppression/advantage, how they impact health outcomes and health care quality, and strategies to address.
Improvement Science & Methods
Methods focused sessions describing how the concepts, methods, and tools of improvement science and related disciplines (e.g., implementation science) and novel applications (e.g., AI) can be applied to drive meaningful improvements in health and health care.
Leadership
Engaging leaders at all levels in driving results within health and health care.
Let's Talk About Money
Understanding the dynamics of healthcare expenses isn't just an option, it's a necessity in paving the way for a future where quality care is accessible to all. Dive into the labyrinth of rising healthcare costs that grip individuals, families, and entire societies worldwide.
Patient and Workforce Safety
Making the health care continuum safer by improving safety and reducing harm to patients and those who care for them This includes physical, psychological and emotional harm.
Population Health
Improving the health outcomes of a community involves not only improving individual well-being but also ensuring equitable distribution of these outcomes among its members. Sessions reflect work in the fields of maternal and child health, behavioral health and well-being, as well as linkages and collaborations between sectors.
Workforce Well-Being
Providing proven methods and resources to enable the workforce to truly thrive — not just persevere.
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Couch Conversations |
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Couch Conversations offer attendees an opportunity to engage with subject matter experts and other attendees in informal dialogue. These shorter intimate sessions focus on timely topics and pressing issues relevant to each of the IHI Forum program tracks, fostering meaningful dialogue and insights, sparking curiosity, interest, and potentially inspiring participants to explore other IHI Forum general sessions. |
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Fireside Chat |
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These evening sessions provide attendees with a unique and informal space for moderated conversations, focusing on topics and issues that impact daily work, professional development, and/or the improvement field using an informal setting and facilitated by their peers. Presenters will share personal anecdotes and experiences and go in-depth on specific issues relevant to the audience. |
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Spotlight Sessions |
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Spotlight sessions are modeled after a keynote-in-the-round or a TED-style stage, bringing the prominent leaders in the field and the audience closer together, and allowing the ability to engage with a larger yet more personal audience. |
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World Café |
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The “world’s largest” World Café event features innovators and improvers from across the global improvement community. Over 30+ short presentations (~15 minutes) will be held simultaneously, allowing participants to choose their interested topic and engage in extremely intimate learning and discussion with the presenters and other participants at their table. Several rotations will occur giving attendees the access and choice to various content over the course of the World Café, sparking dynamic engagements, and new connections with both presenters and attendees alike. |
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Half-Day Workshops |
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3-Hour focus-topic “how to” learning sessions that allow participants to fully engage in discussions, activities, and Q&A with world-renowned experts. These highly interactive sessions will have attendees taking home new tools, implementing quality improvement practices, and gaining and sustaining success. |
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Abstract-Driven Sessions |
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Abstract-Driven sessions showcase three to four short improvement project presentations grouped together on the theme of a specific IHI Forum track. Following each presentation an IHI moderator will facilitate discussion and Q&A. These sessions feature some of the best improvement projects and give attendees the most bang for their buck. |
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General Sessions |
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General sessions make up the meat of the IHI Forum giving attendees a plethora of healthcare improvement topics, formats (both interactive and didactic), and access to leading experts from across the globe in a 60-minute timeframe. |
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Pecha Kucha |
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Pecha Kucha feature several content expert individuals and teams sharing their work rapid-fire style. These unique presentations use images rather than reading text on slides and move at a fast pace of twenty slides at twenty seconds each to prevent information overload. Presenters will get straight to the point, sharing memorable stories and skills that will leave attendees focused and engaged. |
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Rise & Shine Sessions |
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Have breakfast and network with colleagues on a variety of improvement topics. These slightly shorter early morning sessions kick of each day’s content with a mix of interactivity and lecture to help increase motivation for the day ahead, whilst teaching vital information attendees can apply to their organizations and lives. |
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Innovation Theater |
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Innovation Theater presentations, offered in the IHI Forum Hall, provide an additional opportunity to learn from experts and visionaries on a wide variety of high-interest topics. Faculty will offer insights and innovative solutions that you are sure to find deeply compelling and of great value in your work. |