Using AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange to Take on the Challenges of Care Delivery

Upcoming Web Conference

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What: AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Web Conference
Date and Time: Monday, May 12, 2008, 2:00 PM (EDT)/11:00 AM (PST)-90 Minutes
Registration Deadline: Monday, May 12, 2008-12:00 PM (EDT)
Cost: Free

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Why Attend

Attend this Webinar to:

• Hear why AHRQ has created this opportunity for health care professionals to exchange ideas and learn from each others' experiences.
• Discover how you can find innovations and tools specific to the populations, settings, and health care conditions that interest you.
• Learn how you can participate in the Innovations Exchange and submit your own innovations in health services delivery.
• Get inspired by innovators who have made significant advances in the delivery of health care.
• Gain insight on why an attempt at innovation is valuable to the process of change toward quality improvement.

The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange is a Web-based information and social learning hub for sharing health care service innovations among health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers, and the public. In this virtual space, agents of change in health care delivery can exchange ideas, stories, and information. Together, change agents like you can collaborate on cross-disciplinary solutions that will lead to adopting health practices that improve health care quality and reduce health care disparities.

Speakers/Presenters

Overview of Innovations Exchange

Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., has served as the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality since 2003. She is a general internist and health services researcher. Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and patient safety, including women's health, primary care, access to care services, and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions. Select for Biography.

Introduction to Innovations Exchange 2.0, Background, Functionality, and Features

Mary P. Nix, M.S., M.T.(A.S.C.P.)S.B.B., oversees the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange.

Innovation Attempt—Diabetes Management Wireless Messaging System

Michael Leu, M.D., M.S., Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

Innovation Submitter—Heart Failure Disease Management Improves Outcomes and Reduces Costs

Linda Wick, N.P., St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Health System, Duluth, Minnesota

Disparities Innovator/Learning Network—The Community Health Access Project Employing Community Health Workers

Mark Redding, M.D., Mansfield Pediatrics, Mansfield, Ohio

Registration

Registration is required for this free Web conference. Select to Register.

More Information

For more information, contact the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange by E-mail at info@innovations.ahrq.gov or visit the Innovations Exchange Web site at http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov.

Current as of May 2008

Internet Citation:

Using AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange to Take on the Challenges of Care Delivery. Upcoming Web Conference. May 2008. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/innovations.htm

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