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Choose from over 150 sessions to attend, organized through 10 tracks vital to the improvement of care.

Building Improvement Capability

Embedding a culture of continuous improvement throughout a system

Sessions include:

Filling Your Quality Improvement Toolbox: Starter Edition
Taking Successful Improvements to Scale
The Foundations of Quality Improvement in Health Care
Using the Dosing Approach to Build Capability
The Psychology of Change: People-Driven Methods to Unlock Resistance & Unleash QI
Back to Basics: Building Essential Quality Improvement Skills

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Moving from Volume to Value

Conducting business with the mission to create sustainable health care value for patients

Sessions include:

Hot Topics in High Value Health Care
Journeying from Volume to Value for Everyone
Code Green: The Economics of Acute Care Redesign
Reducing Readmissions Through Communication with Transitional Care Services
See to Solve: Translating Toyota
7 Proven Paths for Engaging Physicians Around Cost
Value Management: A New Approach to Making Cost Reduction Part of your Quality Strategy
Achieving Hospital-Wide Patient Flow

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Equity

Improving access and outcomes with communities that have been systematically marginalized

Sessions include:

Queer Eye for the QI
Pursuing Equity: Moving from Information to Action
Developing a Dashboard to Measure Health Equity
Moving Beyond Diversity: Two Organizations Improving Workplace Equity
Creating Healthcare Justice: Understanding and Eliminating Racism in Health Systems

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Joy-in-Work

Encouraging a physically and psychologically safe workplace and appreciating the purpose behind our work

Sessions include:

Co-Design an Environment Where Staff Thrive
Leadership Models for Co-producing Joy in Work
Building a Peer Support Program
Playing Your Way to Improved Team Communications
Second Victim Support: Helping Healers Heal

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Improvement Science

Applying concepts and tools of improvement science to drive meaningful change

Sessions include:

Skin in the Game: Accountability and Pressure Injury Analytics

Improved Patient Flow Using Quality-Based Pathways
Using Communications Strategies to Accelerate Quality Improvement
Data Visualization for Quality Improvement
Learning Statistical Thinking through Games
Large Scale Change is Easy, Right? Insights & Tips
Empathy-Based Innovation Lab Toolkit in a Box
The Psychology of Change: People-Driven Methods to Unlock Resistance & Unleash QI

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Person-Centered Care

Putting people, patients, and care partners at the heart of every decision to improve care

Sessions include:

EmPATHic Innovations: Patients Solve Your Problems
The Role of Primary Care in Accountable Care Organizations
Design Ideal Experiences with Focused Care Centers
Scaling Communication and Resolution Programs
Are Frequently-Admitted ED Patients in Fact MVPs
Navigating Opioid Crisis: Journey Maps & Relationships
Toward A Personalized Patient Experience: Approaches from Inside and Outside Healthcare
Healthcare Service Coproduction and its Improvement: How Does it Work?

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Leadership

Encouraging new ideas, behaviors, and actions for the challenges of today

Sessions include:

Activating Rising Leaders to Improve Care
Chief Quality Officer - Leading Quality Across a System
Driving out Waste to Return the Money
High-Impact Leadership Behaviors in Daily Practice
The Board's Role in Governing Quality
High-Impact Leadership: Teamwork at a Grand Scale

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Population Health

Improving outcomes for populations with diverse needs through partnerships between health systems and communities

Sessions include:

Population Health Strategies for Behavioral Health
Reducing Length of Stay at a Correctional Hospital
The Opioid Crisis â€“ Transforming Care in the ED and Beyond
How to Screen for and Address Social Needs Across the Lifespan
Using QI Bundles to Improve Maternity Care: Outcomes and Lessons from the Field
A How To Guide to Tele-Behavioral Health
A City-Wide Network to Improve Child Health and Narrow Equity Gaps

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Patient Safety

Reducing harm and preventing mortality across the continuum of care

Sessions include:

Health Systems are Merging: What Could Go Wrong?
A Novel Ambulatory Quality & Safety Infrastructure
Measuring Harm: Tools for Today, Tips for Tomorrow
Leading Large-Scale Change to Reduce Stillbirth
Key Factors to Creating a Culture of Safety
Achieving Safety II via Resilience Engineering
Successful Practices to Optimize Root Cause Analyses and Actions (RCA2)

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Care and Health for Older Adults

Meeting the needs of a growing population of older adults

Sessions include:

Hospital at Home: Is Your Organization Ready?
Improving Care to Live Well with Dementia
Telemedicine Cuts Avoidable Long-Term Care Transfers to Emergency Department
1 Year After Diabetes Deprescribing: Our Journey
Co-Designing to Empower Family Caregivers
4Ms as Best Care for Older Adults: Implement & Sustain

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