Join thought leaders at Healthcare Leadership Forum in Chicago

Are you looking for some innovative ideas to drive change in your organization? We hope that later this month you will join Clinical-Innovation.com and Clinical Innovation + Technology at our third annual Healthcare Leadership Forum in Chicago. This year's meeting again offers an impressive roster of leading speakers and thought leaders across medicine and healthcare IT as well as nursing with an educational mission of Leveraging Evidence Across the Care Continuum. The meeting takes place Sept. 29-30 at the Waldorf Astoria in Chicago.

The event is chaired by two well-known leaders in medicine and nursing: David Bates, MD, MSc, chief quality officer, senior vice president and chief of the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and medical director of clinical and quality analysis, Partners Healthcare; and Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and national program director of Project HealthDesign.

The speakers at this highly interactive conference will focus on implementing IT and evidence-based practice in an intimate setting of physicians, IT and healthcare executives, and leaders in nursing and interdisciplinary care. There will be numerous networking opportunities—meals, educational sessions a netowrking reception and more to learn and share best practices for driving knowledge to the point of care.

Delivering the keynote address, “What’s the Evidence of Effectiveness of Transitions,” is Mary D. Naylor PhD, RN, FAAN, Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative.

Here’s a sample of educational sessions:

• Making Transitions Safer--Vineet M. Arora MD, MAPP, associate professor of medicine, director of the GME Clinical Learning Environment Innovation and assistant dean, Scholarship & Discovery University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
• Policy, Privacy & Translating Evidence into Practice--Deven McGraw JD, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and chair of the federal Privacy and Security Tiger Team; co-chair of the Information Exchange Workgroup; and member of  the Meaningful Use Workgroup.
• The Evidence of Mobile Health--David H. Gustafson PhD, research professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and national program and director of NIATx, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative to improve quality of services in substance abuse treatment agencies.
• Innovation Across the Continuum--Alistair Erskine MD, chief clinical informatics officer, Geisinger Health System.

Join Clinical Innovation + Technology for these sessions and many more. Use code: CIT50 and register now for a 50 percent reduction in the registration fee.

We hope to see you Sept. 29-30 at the Waldorf Astoria Chicago. Clinical Innovation will be providing live coverage of the meeting.