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  Public- and Private-Sector Initiatives Are Reducing Health Disparities Among Children: A Conversation With Kathryn Santoro, MA, Director of Policy and Development for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation by The Innovations Exchange Team (12/19/2012)

  Antimicrobial Resistance Still Poses a Public Health Threat: A Conversation With Edward J. Septimus, MD, FIDSA, FACP, FSHEA, Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center by The Innovations Exchange Team (11/21/2012)

  Challenges Facing Rural Health Care: A Conversation With Brock Slabach, Senior Vice President for Member Services at the National Rural Health Association by The Innovations Exchange Team (11/7/2012)

  Effective Palliative Care Programs Require Health System Change by The Innovations Exchange Team (10/24/2012)

  Technology Is Improving Patients' Access to Their Health Information: A Conversation With Mary P. Griskewicz, MS, FHIMSS, Senior Director of Health Information Systems, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society by The Innovations Exchange Team (10/10/2012)

  Public Health Workforce Faces New Challenges and Opportunities by The Innovations Exchange Team (9/12/2012)

  Connecting Underserved Patients to Primary Care After Emergency Department Visits: A Conversation With Herbert C. Smitherman Jr., MD, MPH, FACP, President and CEO, Health Centers Detroit Foundation by The Innovations Exchange Team (8/29/2012)

  Sustaining and Spreading Quality Improvement: A Conversation With Julie Kliger, MPA, BSN, Director, Integrated Nurse Leadership Program, University of California San Francisco by The Innovations Exchange Team (8/1/2012)

  Innovation in Clinical and Community Relationships Post-Katrina: A Conversation With Eric Baumgartner, MD, MPH by the Innovations Exchange Team (7/3/2012)

  Moving an Innovative Depression Care Model from Research to Practice: A Conversation With IMPACT Implementation Center Director Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA by the Innovations Exchange Team (3/28/2012)

  Spreading Innovations to Enhance Care for Older Adults: An Interview With Amy Berman of the John A. Hartford Foundation by The Innovations Exchange Team (3/28/2012)

  The Transformation of Health and Health Care Delivery: A Conversation with Barbara Spurrier, Administrative Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation by the Innovations Exchange Team (3/28/2012)

  The Innovations Exchange Can Be an Effective, Practical Teaching Tool: An Interview With Judith Kunisch, BSN, MBA, Lecturer, Yale School of Nursing, Innovations Exchange Expert Panel Member by the Innovations Exchange Team (3/14/2012)

  Building a Consultation Path for Spreading Innovation in Long-Term Care by Steve Shields, CEO/Principal, Action Pact Development, LLC (2/29/2012)

  Preventing and Mitigating the Effects of Childhood Violence and Trauma: An Interview With Carl C. Bell, MD by Health Care Innovations Exchange Team (2/15/2012)

  A National Campaign to Scale Up and Spread CUSP-CLABSI: Interviews with James B. Battles and Stephen Hines by The Innovations Exchange Team (12/7/2011)

  Focusing on Priority Populations: An Interview with Cecilia Rivera Casale, Senior Advisor for Minority Health, AHRQ by The Innovations Exchange Team (11/23/2011)

  Do Innovations Provide a Return on Investment? by Dr. John Øvretveit, Professor of Health Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation, and Director of Research at the Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: jovret@aol.com (11/9/2011)

  Collaborative Innovation Can Curb Obesity Across the Lifespan by Charles Homer, MD, MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (8/3/2011)

  Addressing Health Disparities: A Conversation With Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health by The Innovations Exchange Team (7/20/2011)

  A Conversation on Cultural Competence with Cindy Brach, Senior Health Policy Researcher, AHRQ by The Innovations Exchange Team (5/25/2011)

  Delivering Preventive Services Through Clinical and Community Linkages: An Interview With Ruta Valaitis RN, PhD, Dorothy C. Hall Chair in Primary Health Care Nursing, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University by the Innovations Exchange Team (5/11/2011)

  How the Nurse-Family Partnership Became a National Model for Maternal Child Health Programs: An Interview With Peggy Hill , MS, Chief Strategic Relations Officer, Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office, Denver, CO by the Innovations Exchange Team (4/13/2011)

  Pushing for Innovation to Achieve Healthy Weight for All by Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, FAAP, FACP, Former Chief Public Health Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (3/2/2011)

  The Role of Health Care Innovation in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award: An Interview With Baldrige Judge Patricia Martinez, MD, MPH by The Innovations Exchange Team (12/8/2010)

  Applying Storytelling to Health Care Innovation: An Interview With Steve Denning, Organizational Storytelling Expert and Award-Winning Author by The Health Care Innovations Exchange Team (3/31/2010)

  Applying Customer-Driven Innovation to Health Care: An Interview with Jeneanne Rae, Co-Founder and President, Peer Insight, LLC by The Health Care Innovations Exchange Team (1/19/2009)

  How to Incorporate Innovation into a Strategic Plan by Jennifer Phillips, Center for Innovation, Virginia Mason (VM) Medical Center (9/23/2008)

  Understanding Different Models of Innovation: An Interview With Hal Stern, Senior Vice President at Sun Microsystems, Inc. by The Health Care Innovations Exchange Team (8/4/2008)

  Why Innovation Is Important by Paul E. Plsek, MS, DirectedCreativityâ„¢ (Editorial Board member) (4/14/2008)

  How Non-Health Care Organizations Come Up With New Ideas and Approaches by Peter Coughlan, IDEO (3/24/2008)

  Striving for Vuja De: Developing Eyes for Creativity by Marilyn P. Chow, RN, DNSc, FAAN (Expert Panel member) and Christi J. Zuber, RN, MHA, Kaiser Permanente (3/24/2008)

Guides
Connecting Those at Risk to Care: A Guide to Building a Community "HUB" to Promote a System of Collaboration, Accountability, and Improved Outcomes
Connecting Those at Risk to Care: The Quick Start Guide to Developing Community Care Coordination Pathways
Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations

Last updated: February 29, 2012.