ASQ Healthcare Conference Seeks Presenters

Global healthcare quality leaders invited to submit proposals.         

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 26, 2010 – Healthcare organizations from around the globe are invited to share their models of quality improvement at the upcoming 2011 Quality Institute for Healthcare (QIHC) Conference, May 16-18 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.

First Do No Harm, Then Make No Waste: Proven Methods and Tools for Safe and Efficient Global Healthcare is the theme for the event, hosted by ASQ (American Society for Quality), www.asq.org, the leading quality improvement organization in the United States.

QIHC Program Chair Ricardo Leano, M.D, announces a call for presentation submissions from all healthcare leaders and quality practitioners—from administrators and managers to clinical directors—who are interested in sharing best practices, successes and proven techniques with an audience representing many countries and backgrounds. The submission deadline is Monday, September 13, 2010.

ASQ is interested in general (basic) and advanced level content for the conference in either a one-hour presentation or a four-hour workshop format presenting real applications, solutions and results that show demonstrated economic and/or patient outcome value. Focus areas for the conference will include efficiency, patient and customer satisfaction, patient safety, technology and quality improvement, quality systems and organizational excellence, and building and sustaining a quality culture. Visit ASQ to learn more about these topics and submit your proposal.

ASQ provides resources, training, certification and networking opportunities to professionals in a diverse range of healthcare organizations from hospitals and medical clinics to blood banks whose objective is to improve quality of care, patient safety and satisfaction, organizational efficiencies and the bottom line.

ASQ, (American Society for Quality) www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 80,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.

As a champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding sponsor of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.