WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: November 12, 2015 Featuring: Bruce Spurlock, MD, President and CEO, Cynosure Health Solutions Andrea Kabcenell, RN, MPH, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Kedar Mate, MD, Senior Vice President, IHI Jane Brock, MD, MSPH, Medical Director, Telligen; Clinical Director, Quality Innovation Network - Quality Improvement Organizations National Coordinating Center One of the hallmarks of the health care improvement movement has been the way in which diverse organizations and teams come together to gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to implement change. The most celebrated of these models over the past few decades has been the “collaborative” – as simple a concept as it is radical. Simple because it’s essentially a gathering of health care practitioners and leaders willing to move beyond their own walls in order to learn with and from others facing similar patient care challenges, in pursuit of the shared goal of accelerating improvement. Radical because to take thi