24-30 July 2022, San Servolo Island, Venice (Italy)
The Observatory Venice Summer School 2022 is a short, intensive course. It is a week of learning, interacting, studying, debating, and sharing experiences with other policymakers, planners, and professionals to understand, discuss and improve strategies and policies for the implementation of innovative solutions.
The course is aimed at high-level professionals working at Ministries of Health or Health authorities at the national, regional, or local level, public or private payers, provider organisations, professional societies, patient organisations and others who are responsible for fostering and implementing innovations to transform health care provision. If you are involved in steering change processes and facilitating the uptake of innovations within health systems – then the Observatory Venice Summer School is for you.
Objectives:
To understand innovation and change in health systems and draw on the field of implementation science
To explore the different challenges of implementation relating to different types of innovation, including biomedical, technological, and organisational innovations
To delve into the roles of different stakeholders in implementation, including patients, professionals, payers, and how policymakers can best support these processes
To learn from good practice elsewhere, and the potential for collaboration between European health systems
To master techniques for bringing about constructive change, and discover models for supporting effective change processes, including processes of de-implementation
To understand how European tools can help to support change in health systems
Why innovation and implementation?
Innovation in healthcare creates great potential to improve lives, but how much of that potential is realised in practice depends on successful implementation. This sounds easy, but it is not - and it is a considerable issue constraining the success of many innovations to date. Evidence suggests that current wasteful spending on health is an order of magnitude larger than projected increases in age-related healthcare expenditure. In other words, successful implementation of good practice in healthcare is not only crucial to ensuring equitable access to the care people need but is also the key to achieving long-term sustainability of European health systems. In this regard, understanding the various dimensions of innovations and the challenges tied to propelling their uptake at different levels of systems and organisations plays a crucial role in strengthening health systems globally. The Observatory Venice Summer School 2022 on implementing innovation will help participants to rise to this challenge.
Approach:
The six-day course includes formal teaching but has at its core the experiences of participants in practice. A highly participative and interactive approach emphasizes group work and workshops that cut across relevant themes, while also encouraging the application of learned concepts to practical case studies. It mobilises the latest evidence and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Course participants will also be able to a) share perspectives with and gain insights from key international organisations including the European Commission and WHO as well as relevant professional and governmental organisations and b) engage in political dialogue with senior policymakers. Participants will become part of the Summer School tradition, which fosters evidence-informed policymaking and encourages European health policy debate by raising key issues, sharing learning, and building lasting networks.
FOCAL POINT:
Annalisa Marianecci at marianeccia@obs.who.int
Deadline for applications: 5 June 2022
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