1. Black Group: Building a quality improvement infrastructure
Challenges and Opportunities–
Find incentives to create change
Convene right people to get action; develop action plans
Reward evidence based practice vs rewarding evidence based
outcomes
Tolerate imperfection in service of quality improvement
Which organizations can convene stakeholder groups?
How to excite the public to participate in quality improvement
Translation of research to practice
How does public know it was a good program – driven by science
Need to make business case for the public
Work of funders of IOM is not over yet; need to get their money’s worth by development of action plans
Complexity of defining outcomes