In the modern era, keeping patients safe and delivering high-quality care involves bringing together data from many sources so that clinicians, patients, managers and leaders, and policymakers can make decisions quickly and confidently. Smart healthcare organisations are increasingly able to exploit their data sources in this way, and are becoming Learning Health Systems.

ISQua Statement: 15^th March 2022

ISQua stands with those who need healthcare and those who provide healthcare during conflict.

It was with the remarkable Italian renaissance city of Florence in mind, that the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) bestowed the title “Emotion, inspiration and creativity – pathways to global health quality” on our 37th international conference. 

As 1st April 2020 dawned in Australia, I realised it was April Fool’s day. But it wasn’t pranks from my children, friends or colleagues that I was immediately on alert about. It was what everyone does these days, in this era of the coronavirus.