Events

Event: 6th International G-I-N Conference 2009: Evidence translation in different countries
1st – 4th November 2009 – Lisbon, Portugal
The programme will include sessions on:

• Knowledge transfer – practical tools and incentives for getting evidence into practice
• Quality aspects – importance and use of indicators
• Patient perspectives on guidelines – including involvement of patients and methods of conveying evidence to consumers
• Policy makers perspectives – using evidence to promote safety and quality, promote the use and importance of guidelines in the global context

Click here for more information. The deadline for abstracts is 30th May 2009.

Event: 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management
3rd-4th September 2009 – Universita degli Studi di Padova, Vicenza, Italy
Click here to read more about this conference.

Event: The Triple Aim: optimizing health care resources for the good of a population
14th-15th May, 2009 – London, England
Improve the health of the population…enhance the patient experience of care…control the per capita cost of care – these are the concurrent goals of healthcare systems that serve populations. This is a two-day seminar that will provide healthcare professionals with the opportunity to learn a specific framework for achieving the Triple Aim and to develop a plan for applying the framework to their own organizations. Click here to find out more about this event.

Event: Web&ACTION: Using the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Patient Safety
1st and 15th April, and 6th May 2009 – online webinars.
These programs combine three intensive expert-let web-based learning sessions followed by Action Periods during which participants apply their knowledge to real-time practice. This particular program will teach participants how to identify harm, and use these results to measure the effectiveness of safety improvements to reduce patient harm. Click here for more information.

Event: m-ICTE 2009
22nd-24th April 2009 – Lisbon, Portugal
The conference is an international forum for discussion among teachers, researchers and people who are interested in the ways emerging technologies are transforming education. The special sessions are:

• Web 2.0 for Education
• ePortfolios
• ICT in Science and Engineering
• Medical e-Learning

Click here for more.

Event: 8th EXPOELEARNING
19th-20th March 2009 – Barcelona, Spain
“The image of e-learning” is the theme of this year’s Expoelearning, international congress and professional showroom. The parallel activities include Virtualcampus for universities, Moodleparty for companies, and Educaparty for teachers to exchange experiences. Click here for more.

Event: Lean and Six Sigma: a practical guide for clinicians and managers at directorate and ward/clinical service delivery level
15th May 2009 – Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester
This conference provides a guide to implementing Lean and Six Sigma across your own organisation, and includes an overview of the Lean and Six Sigma tools. Topics include:

• Lean in Healthcare: the route to dramatic improvement
• Lean and Six Sigma: where to start
• Understanding and analysing patient and process flows at clinical service delivery level
• Engaging clinicians and frontline staff in Lean Six Sigma
• Lean management driving improvement in patient experience
• Lean thinking: demonstrating quality outcomes improvement
• Delivering rapid improvement at directorate level
• Lean thinking on the ward: releasing time and care
• Lean and patient safety

Click here to download a copy of the conference programme and to book online.

Event: Building better performing delivery systems
18th – 20th May 2009 – Minneapolis Convention Center, USA
This conference is being run by the Quality Institute for Healthcare, and will run in tandem with the 2009 World Conference on Quality and Improvement. This event features workshops on the many topics, including:

• Improved community health
• Improved value to patients and payers
• Lean
• Patient flow and queuing
• Six sigma

Click here for more information.