Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced it will once again host one of the region’s most established and successful quality improvement conferences for healthcare professionals. The Middle East (ME) Forum on quality improvement and patient safety in healthcare will mark the fifth time that HMC collaborated with the internationally renowned Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to deliver high quality advanced learning in the science of improvement.
Led by HMC’s Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute (HHQI), the annual conference will be held from 5 - 7 May 2017 at Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. The conference reinforces the continued partnership between HMC and IHI, a not-for-profit organization that is a leading innovator in health and healthcare improvement worldwide.
The conference theme this year is “System wide transformation to achieve better patient care”. It centres on transformative approaches to optimizing health systems taking into account three dimensions: the experience of the individual; how to improve the health of a defined population; and how to reduce the per capita cost of health care. The conference will feature plenaries, lectures and workshop session from local, regional and global health experts.
