Coordinating public & private sector efforts to improve healthcare quality & performance

27 July 2011

Dr Brian Mittman

Improvements in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency require the coordinated involvement and contributions of diverse stakeholder groups, including government agencies, NGOs, professional associations and communities, healthcare delivery organisations and others. Each of these groups has its own constituencies, goals and constraints, and reconciling these to achieve optimal coordination is challenging. Dr Brian Mittman will introduce key challenges encountered by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and other large reform-oriented delivery systems in the US, and will discuss strategies employed to successfully overcome selected challenges as well as barriers still to be addressed.

Broad Topics: Medicine and Life Science

Sub-topics: Medical & Health Science

Areas: ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences

Dr Mittman has played a leadership role in numerous initiatives to develop and strengthen the field of implementation science. He convened the planning committee that launched the journal Implementation Science (www.ImplementationScience.com) and is the co-editor-in-chief of the journal. He was a founding member of the Institute of Medicine Forum on the Science of Quality Improvement and Implementation. He is a past chair of the National Institute of Health review committee on Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health. He directed VA’s Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) from 2002-2004. He is currently a member of the Methodology Committee for the newly-established Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the AAMC Advisory Panel on Research, and several additional US and international initiatives in the fields of comparative effectiveness research and implementation science.