GESTIÓN EN SALUD PÚBLICA: Taking Innovations to Scale

Taking Innovations to Scale | AHRQ Innovations Exchange

Voices From the Field

Expert Perspectives on Scale Up and Spread

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Brian Mittman, PhD, describes factors that influence the scale up and spread of innovations

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Peggy Hill, MS, reveals how the Nurse-Family Partnership became a national model for maternal child health programs

Julie Kliger, MPA, BSN, Director, Integrated Nurse Leadership Program, University of California San Francisco

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Julie Kliger, MPA, BSN, explains a nurse-focused leadership model for spreading and sustaining innovations

Stephen Hines, Ph.D., Vice-President for Research at the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET)

James Battles, Ph.D., Senior Service Fellow for Patient Safety at the AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

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Stephen Hines, Ph.D., Vice-President for Research at the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) and James Battles, Ph.D., Senior Service Fellow for Patient Safety at the AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, describe the national campaign to scale up and spread CUSP-CLABSI

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Steve Shields, CEO/Principal, Action Pact Development, LLC explains how he and his colleagues spread a long-term care innovation and the challenges associated with these efforts

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Amy Berman, B.S., R.N., Program Officer of the John A. Hartford Foundation shares how the Hartford Foundation supports the spread and dissemination of proven innovations in older adult populations

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Jürgen Unützer, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, describes the evidence-based IMPACT program for late-life depression and the role that the IMPACT Implementation Center and AIMS Center play in the program’s scale up and spread.

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Barbara Spurrier, M.H.A., Administrator Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, shares how the center develops, tests, and supports innovations that can transform health and health care delivery.

Million Hearts™

The Heart 360^® Innovation was one of several programs featured in a Million Hearts™ event in April 2012. The Million Hearts™ initiative invited prominent health care thought leaders and stakeholders to Washington DC, to inspire creative thinking about scaling and spreading cardiovascular prevention activities throughout the United States.

Scaling and Spreading the Heart 360^® Innovation: Part 1

David J. Magid

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Scaling and Spreading the Heart 360^® Innovation: Part 2

David J. Magid

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Spotlight on Innovators’ Spread Efforts

This AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange video series, Can This Innovation Be Scaled?, features presentations from three innovators who are attempting to scale their programs, as well as reactions from a panel of stakeholders. These videos were filmed at the Scale Up & Spread Round Table, held in Rockville, MD on May 11, 2011. Access the video summaries. >>