Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership

Program Overview

In today’s health care environment, marked by increased challenges, competition and regulation—not to mention ever-rising costs—issues of clinical quality and patient safety take on even greater importance than before.

Obviously, every practitioner and every medical institution works toward only the best clinical outcomes. But because medical errors can lead to damaged reputation, exposure to lawsuits and an inability to attract and retain top talent, it is essential for leaders around the world to implement programs of continuous improvement to achieve the highest standards of care.

Harvard Medical School’s Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership program was designed to help leaders effect positive change by learning to turn patient data into actionable, transformable knowledge. 

Participants will emerge with the tools and knowledge needed to drive system-wide improvement, as well as a global network of peers facing the same challenges.

Deadlines

• Early Application Deadline: April 9, 2025
• Final Application Deadline: June 18, 2025

Fees

• Early Deadline Program Fee: $13,900
• Program Fee: $14,900

View Admissions & Fees for more information.

Program Format

This program has three required workshops; the first two workshops will be held live online and the final workshop will be held in person in Boston. Learners should expect to spend an average of 5-7 hours per week on coursework, viewing pre-recorded materials, attending live online lectures, reviewing sessions with faculty, and working on team assignments and your capstone.

Workshop Dates

Workshop 1: July 28- August 1, 2025 | Live Virtual

Workshop 2: January 12-16, 2026 | Live Virtual

Workshop 3 & Graduation: July 14-17, 2026 | Boston, MA
 

Program Objectives

The goal of the Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership program is to provide fundamental knowledge in four key, interrelated areas: clinical quality, patient safety, quantitative informatics, and robust leadership. Participants will learn how to apply analytic tools to raw data to reveal powerful insights that can be applied to quality and safety practices and policies—and then implement these learnings throughout the organization. Upon completion of the program, participants will be prepared to:

• Apply key concepts in patient safety, quality, and informatics to real-world health problems
• Identify barriers to change within complex health care systems
• Develop and sharpen personal leadership and communication skills
• Use Harvard Business School Case Method teachings to illustrate and learn from case scenarios in an interactive setting
• Building on all of the above, develop plans for quality improvement and patient safety through the use of informatics within the participant’s own health care practice, organization or system
   

2024 Accreditation

Accreditation information for the 2025 course is not yet available.

In support of improving patient care, Harvard Medical School 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.

Physicians 

The Harvard Medical School designates this Enduring Activity for a maximum of 20.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Canadian Accreditation

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

European Accreditation

The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found here.

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