Using Learning Communities to Support Innovation Adoption:

Lessons from the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange

When: Thursday, August 25, 2016, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. EDT

Join a free Web event from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care Innovations Exchange, featuring results from three unique learning communities that implemented innovations to address common challenges in health care delivery. Speakers will provide an overview of the activities and results on:

Advancing the Practice of Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Hospitals (Florida)
https://innovations.ahrq.gov/learning-communities/patient-and-family-centered-care;
Reducing Non-Urgent Emergency Services (Detroit)
https://innovations.ahrq.gov/learning-communities/reducing-non-urgent-emergency-services; and
Promoting Medication Therapy Management for At-Risk Populations (Houston)
https://innovations.ahrq.gov/learning-communities/medication-therapy-management.

To register, visit https://innovations.ahrq.gov/events/2016/08/using-learning-communities-support-innovation-adoption-lessons-ahrq-health-care.

This Web event is sponsored by the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange, and is presented in collaboration with AcademyHealth.

Host:

Mary P. Nix, M.S., PMP
Lead, AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Moderator:

Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H, FAAP President and Chief Executive Officer, AcademyHealth

Presenters:

Beverley Johnson President and CEO, Institute for Patient-and Family-Centered Care

Herbert Smitherman, Jr., M.D., M.P.H, FACP Assistant Dean of Community and Urban Health
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine
President and CEO, Health Centers Detroit Foundation, Inc.

Joy P. Alonzo, M.Eng, PharmD Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research University of Houston College of Pharmacy
Associate Director of Pharmacy Services, Texas Children's Health Plan