The Microsystem Festival

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The documentation for the 7th festival is published!

Are you looking for more knowledge? Do you want to remember all the experiences you gathered during the festival days?

Well then...please visit the site where we publish the documentation from the festival. Documentation

Mental Health care in focus

At this year’s Festival we are happy to announce that the Mental Health Care is contributing a lot to the program.

A lot of improvement work is in progress within Mental Health Care around the world and some of the teams working with this on a daily basis, will come to the festival and share their knowledge and experiences with us.

Does this sound like something that would interest you?Then you should focus on the following seminars:

A5 Service Improvement through Collaborative Leadership
This session would focus on the importance of collaborative partnerships between clinicians and managers in leading innovation and improvement in Mental Health and Learning Disability services.

B5 Experiential knowledge of users and relatives as a power in the micro-system of patients in the Mental Health Service of Trento (Italy)
International experiences, Italy; Mental Health Services. This in a splendid example of how patients and relatives can be a valuable part of the care chain. We get to know the design but also the true stories of caregivers and experienced users

D3 Enabling people to live life to the full – pathway based approach
International experiences, UK; Mental Health Services. This session would focus on the importance of collaborative partnerships between clinicians and managers in leading innovation and improvement in Mental Health and Learning Disability services.

Latest news from the microsystem Festival!

The interest for the Festival is big and we recommend you to make a reservation now to ensure a place at the conference. After the Christmas holidays we will publish the finalized program – but let us take a peek at the program already today!

The concept of clinical Microsystems has a strong foothold in Great Britain. Several teams will present their improvement work; both from a patient close perspective and from a wider management view.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is a well respected hospital in the US where they among many things have worked with patient flow analyses. This will be an exciting lecture about how the level for quality improvement can be risen.

From Italy a delegation will tell us about how they for example have integrated the patients in the care process in the psychiatry. We all have something to learn from this.

We are proud to announce that the International Network for Clinical Microsystems now also include South Korea. Represents will show us which possibilities the modern technology can offer healthcare.

Examples from Norway and Denmark will be combined with examples from Sweden; how to work with quality improvement in the non-profit sector and how to integrate the microsystem knowledge in a whole administration and much more.

We can promise you two existing days with many good networking possibilities. Welcome to make a pre-registration and don’t forget to make your personal seminar choices in January.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

The International network for Clinical Microsystem is growing

This year we are happy to welcome a delegation from South Korea! The connection between prevention and health care is under a dynamic process of change. By applying modern technology health care can develop dramatically and the largest challenge is probably to imagine how we want to use these possibilities in the future. During a session the delegation from South Korea will describe present and future u-health devices & business models in Daejeon Metro city.

Welcome to the Clinical Microsystem Festival 2010!

Welcome to the 7th Clinical Microsystem Festival. An arena and meeting place where we who develop and improve health care can ?refuel? ourselves with new energy. We share our knowledge, experiences and function as energy sources for each other.

This year’s theme is ?Let’s energize health care?. The Festival has a broad compound of seminars where we learn together about improvement concepts and above all, the energy sources in health care. One of these sources is patient collaboration, which will be the focus of several seminars. To support coaches for improvement have also shown to be a good energizer in organizations. Key words are patient collaboration, vitality, coaching, learning and renewal. And life energy of course!

More information about the Festival (pdf)

More detailed information regarding the program and seminars will be published in the beginning of January. Pre-registration is possible!

Another perspective on health care

Andreas Hager will in a personal seminar combine his experiences of how it is to be a parent of a chronically ill child with his ideas and suggestions on how the clinical microsystem better can lessen the burden of illness.

More lecturers scheduled for the Festival!

A delegation from north of Italy will present their work around cooperation between patient, family and health care staff in Psychiatric care.

A team from Canada will present their ambitious work with quality as strategy.

Pre-registration is now possible!

If you want to make sure that you will have a place at the Clinical Microsystem Festival 2010, it is now possible to pre-register. Just click on the link "Register" in the left link menu.

Eugene Nelson, Marjorie Godfrey and Christian von Plessen are scheduled as lecturers!

Eugene Nelson and Marjorie Godfrey from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and several other member from the Internation Clinical Microsystem Network such as Christian von Plessen will give lectures at the Festival.

Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA has a long tradition of working with Clinical Microsystems. Professor Eugene Nelson and Marjorie Godfrey, MS, RN,
Doctoral Student and Director of the Clinical Microsystem Resource Group, will lecture about measurements and coaching for change.