The field of health care improvement has come a long way from its origins of tackling routine processes of care, such as waiting times. Today, the field of improvement has turned its attention on the most pressing challenges in health care, from reducing maternal mortality to getting more HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral therapy, and is achieving more significant results at scale. With this shift in the magnitude of the problems that the field is being called on to tackle comes an important, and understandable, shift in the questions that the field is being asked
to answer. To address this shift and the challenges and opportunities it poses, Salzburg Global Seminar, in partnership with the USAID ASSIST Project and the New Ventures Fund, held a week-long session entitled: Better Health Care: How Do We Learn about Improvement? Sixty-one participants from 25 different countries on six continents participated in the session, which was held in Salzburg, Austria in July 2016.
