WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: January 25, 2018 Featuring: ​ David M. Williams, PhD, Executive Director for Improvement Capability, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Petrina McGrath, RN, MN, PhD, Executive Transition Lead: People, Practice and Quality, Saskatchewan Health Authority James Moses, MD, Chief Quality Officer and Vice President of Quality and Safety, Boston Medical Center  Health care systems are under tremendous pressure to create and sustain transformative changes on multiple fronts: patient and worker safety, overall quality of care, moving from volume to value, and population health, just to name a few! The job of overseeing these efforts, and nurturing the culture and vigilance required to stay on track, is increasingly the province of the Chief Quality Officer or CQO.  In many ways, the CQO functions as symbol, sense maker, and keeper of the flame for constant, unwavering, system-level change. The CQO also often marries quality aims with an organization's financial and strategic goals. He or she canno