IHI Open School Triple Aim for Populations Courses
Triple Aim for Populations Courses
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Overview
You might think we do a pretty good job of providing care to individuals with illnesses and diseases. But it’s important to take a step back and consider the factors contributing to illness. It’s important to realize that things like education, the environment, and wealth (and how it’s distributed) play an enormous role in health outcomes, too. In this course, you’ll learn that to make progress against many of the most important threats to human health, it’s not enough to improve clinical care for one patient at a time. We also have to focus on improving the health of entire populations. The Triple Aim for populations is a three-part aim: better care for individuals, better health for populations, all at a lower cost. This course will explore why each dimension is an essential part of improving health and health care, and how you can promote the Triple Aim in your organization and daily work.
Lesson 1 will introduce you to the concept of population health — a different way of thinking about how and why some of us enjoy healthy lives and others do not.
In Lesson 2, we’ll share strategies for providing excellent care experiences at the individual level and maximizing health care’s impact on overall health.
Lesson 3 will explain why lowering costs of care is an essential component of improving the quality of health care and the health of populations. We’ll step back to show you how organizations and communities are working together to make a difference for the populations they serve — part of which is lowering costs.
Estimated Time of Completion: 2 hours
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Improving Population Health
- Lesson 2: Providing Better Care
- Lesson 3: Lowering Costs of Care
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the three components of the IHI Triple Aim for populations.
- Explain the responsibilities of clinicians and health care systems in optimizing population-level outcomes with available resources.
- Understand medical care as one determinant of the overall health of a population, and the relationship of health care quality and safety to population health.
- Provide examples of population-level interventions designed to improve overall health and reduce costs of care.
Continuing Education
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 2 credits for nurses and pharmacists. This activity is approved to award 2 credits toward Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification.
This activity/program is approved by NAHQ® for 2 CPHQ CE credits.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 2 general continuing education credits.
Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive Mainpro+ Certified, Certified Assessment, or Non-Certified credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians.
The AAFP has reviewed TA 101: Introduction to the Triple Aim for Populations and deemed it acceptable for up to 2.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Elective credit(s). Term of Approval is from 06/20/2024 to 06/20/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For Hamad Medical Corporation Open School users, a DHP licensed practitioner can claim Category 2—Self- Directed Learning—Clinical Practice—Completing Self-Learning Modules by uploading their certificate to the CPD ePortfolio.
An annual IHI Open School Subscription can provide access to all these courses and more.
