Upcoming Events
Below is a list of upcoming events hosted by Practice Greenhealth partners. If you would like to have your event listed here, contact Julie Taylor.
Agents of Change: US Healthcare
Practical Approaches to Making Positive Change in Healthcare Institutions, Systems, and Services in the United States.
June 19-20, 2008
Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York City
Featured Topics Include:
- Healthcare Systems & Outcomes in Global Cities: Opportunities, Lessons, and Learning from Experiments
- Strategies to Achieve Incremental vs. Paradigm-shifting Change in Healthcare
- Health 2.0 Technologies: Social Networking Tools in Healthcare
- Large Employers as Partners to Drive Change
- Telemedicine: Perspectives on Connected Health Strategies from Partners Health
- The Medical Home
- New Business and Revenue Models for Healthcare Delivery
- Quality Improvement: Insights from the LEAD Initiative
- Behavioral Change through Cultural Anthropology, Psychology and Technology: Sports and Games
- Lessons Learned from Recent Failures: What We Did Wrong, and What We Learned
- Reports from the Field: Pilots and Experiments about to Launch
Additional Information or Register Online
Practice Greenhealth members receive a 50% discount on registration when using the code GREENHEALTH.
This event is being hosted by ILO, the Institute for Innovation in Large Organizations.
2008 Healthcare Design Conference
November 8-11, 2008
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, DC
This conference is for all professionals involved in the design, build, and operation of healthcare facilities, including top administrators and operations executives, architects, interior designers; facility managers, and design/build professionals, as well as researchers, students, and educators.
This year’s conference is bigger than ever before. Attendees will choose from over 80 Educational Sessions and Discussion Workshops and will benefit from access to the latest and best educational content in healthcare design delivered from thought leaders and innovators within the field.
Educational Sessions Tracks include:
- Evidence-Based Design Research Methodologies
- Case Studies
- Evidence-Based Design Research Studies/ Reports
- Safe Hospital Design
- Green Design and Sustainability
- Innovations in Facility Planning
- Design Challenges and Solutions
- Impact of Technology on Facility Design
- Lessons Learned from Our International Neighbors
For more information and to register, visit www.HCD08.com

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