Events

Event: Web&ACTION: Using the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Patient Safety
Begins 1st April 2009
The Institute for Health Improvement are offering a new web-based program that will teach how to use the IHI Global Trigger Tool to help measure instances of harm often missed using traditional methods of reporting and tracking errors. Click here for more information.

Event: IMPACT – the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium
8th – 12th June – University of Liverpool, UK
IMPACT aims to improve health and reduce health inequalities locally, nationally, and internationally, through Health Impact Assessment (HIA). They are running a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment training course. Click here for more information.

Event: Medicine 2.0 Congress
17th – 18th September 2009 – Toronto, Canada
Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine. The conference has been organized by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, and the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD. Click here for more information.

Event: Stakeholder summit on using quality systematic reviews to inform evidence-based guidelines
4th-5th June 2009 – Baltimore, Maryland
The purpose of this event is to address the use of quality systematic reviews to inform evidence-based guidelines. Click here to find out more.

Event: MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
The Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford is accepting applications until 15th May for the new academic year for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care. This is a part-time programme consisting of six taught modules and a dissertation. Click here for more information.