IHI Scale Up Conference: June 2010

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Welcome to our web site and the initiative to improve health care and public health through enhanced scale-up and spread of effective health programs. This website was established in conjunction with the July 2010 Conference to Advance the State of the Science and Practice on Scale-up and Spread of Effective Health Programs, an event funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Commonwealth Fund, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Donaghue Foundation and John A. Hartford Foundation. The initiative seeks to envision – and trigger – a new era of rapid and broad scale up of effective practices in health care and public health, to achieve improvements in health and quality of life through more rapid diffusion and uptake of effective, innovative practices.

This site contains materials from the conference and additional resources useful in research, policy and practice activities to enhance scale-up and spread.

The website and blog are accompanied by an email discussion list. To join the list, please send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@WWW.LISTSERV.VA.GOV with the command SUBSCRIBE SCALE-UP-SPREAD-DISC-L as the body of the message. Leave the subject line of your message blank, and delete any email “signature” or other text inserted into the message. If you encounter any difficulty please contact Deborah Jenkins (Deborah.Jenkins@va.gov).

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Introductory WebEx Recording (Starts at 18-minute Mark) and Preparatory Activity

For those who were unable to attend Friday's introductory WebEx session for the conference, you can tune in here for a recording:
https://ihi.webex.com/ihi/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=TC&rID=52907387&rKey=1a70e3cdc92c7c8d&act=pb
You might need to take two minutes to download the WebEx player (instructions will pop up) if you have not done so already. Please note that you should fast forward to the 18-minute mark as that is when the formal call begins (otherwise you will just hear patches of conversation and long silences as we readied for the session).
For those who are attending the meeting, please let us know if you have any questions and please try to carry out the core preparatory tasks we outline in the WebEx: Reading the commissioned papers, including the "meeting framing" paper; completing the preparatory worksheet; and scanning the case studies.
For those unable to attend, you should still find the WebEx call informational and, again, we hope you'll continue to tune into this site before, during and after the meeting.
Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions (jmccannon@ihi.org).
Thanks.
Joe McCannon

Friday, June 25, 2010

June 25 Introductory Call

Once again, we’re very excited for our upcoming Conference to Advance the State of the Science and Practice on Scale-up and Spread of Effective Health Programs. The meeting is shaping up very well, and the attendee list is outstanding. We’re really looking forward to seeing those who can join us. This is a reminder – for attendees and non-attendees alike - of the WebEx session we are planning from 11:30am-12:30pm eastern US time on June 25th. This will introduce the meeting in more detail, describe its agenda and link you to materials and resources we’ve collected in advance. This session will also explain the brief assignments we have for you in advance of the meeting, which we hope will make the meeting itself much more enjoyable and effective.

Full connection information is as follows:

Topic: Scale-Up Conference Pre-Meeting Call
Date: Friday, June 25, 2010
Time: 11:30 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Session number: 354 202 488

Web link: Go to https://ihi.webex.com/trainingcenter - the meeting link will be there (if for any reason you have trouble finding the link to the session, you can use the search function underneath the “Live Sessions” title and type in “Scale-Up Conference”).

Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada):1-866-469-3239
Call-in toll number (US/Canada):1-650-429-3300
Global call-in numbers: https://ihi.webex.com/ihi/globalcallin.php?serviceType=TC&ED=135696222&tollFree=1

We very much hope you can be with us.

Joe McCannon