Institute for Healthcare Improvement

The Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool provides a systematic method for hospital frontline clinical staff, members of the financial team, and leaders to identify clinical and operational waste and subsequently prioritize and implement waste reduction initiatives that will result in cost savings for the organization.

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Diana Chapman Walsh, President Emerita of Wellesley College, reflects on her career in education. Profiles in Leadership is a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention. The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The International Summit is a world-class conference featuring the best ideas and faculty on areas that are ripe for improvement within the office practice and community-based care settings.

An intensive seven-day executive development program to help prepare those responsible for safety to be leaders of strong, effective patient safety programs.

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.  The series, which aims to help health professions students reflect on their own leadership journeys, is a project of the IHI Open School for Health Professions and was made possible with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This two-day interactive seminar will provide hospital-based teams and community partners with promising approaches to improve transitions in care and reduce avoidable readmissions by enhancing communications, supporting patients and families, eliminating waste, and creating an ideal transition for patients from the hospital to home.

This program is one way that IHI is helping hospitals implement a key component of the Improvement Map. The aim of this Expedition is to help hospitals to implement palliative care principles to improve the effeciency of their ICU.

Take a look at what IHI Open School Chapters are doing!

This innovative two-day seminar will provide health care professionals with the opportunity to learn a specific framework for achieving the IHI Triple Aim and to develop a plan for applying the framework to their own organizations.

The IHI Triple Aim is a learning initiative to better understand new models that can improve the individual patient experience and the health of entire communities, at a reasonable per capita cost.

Community Updates - February 2011

This article models the effect of different performance levels on the effectiveness of a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) protocols. It finds that ability of these protocols to reduce childhood HIV infections is highly sensitive to how reliably they are implemented. More investment in the consistent and sustainable implementation of the protocols is key to ensuring their success.

This article models the effect of different performance levels on the effectiveness of a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) protocols. It finds that ability of these protocols to reduce childhood HIV infections is highly sensitive to how reliably they are implemented. More investment in the consistent and sustainable implementation of the protocols is key to ensuring their success.