WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: July 7, 2011 Featuring: Lord Nigel Crisp, Strategic Advisor on Global Health and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Author, Turning the World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century Pierre Barker, MD, Senior Vice President for IHI improvement initiatives in South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, and India Pedro Delgado, MSc, Executive Director for IHI large-scale health system improvement efforts in Europe and Latin America Health care improvers in the US have so much on their plates these days, it can seem like a luxury to focus on what’s happening in other countries. That’s unfortunate because health care improvement has become a global endeavor, and nations of all sizes and stages of development are confronting strikingly similar issues. These include how to care for aging populations, how to give individuals the tools to be shared decision makers and managers of their chronic conditions, and how to design systems that optimize communication and coordination acr