The Heart of Complexity

Second Annual Conference on Complexity & Health Care
Summary Notes

Prepared by David Hutchens
iconoclast communications

December 3 & 4
Hamilton Park Conference Center,
Florham Park, New Jersey

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Table of Contents

Welcome, & Making Sense As We Go
Curt Lindberg & Paul Plsek

The Dynamics of Healthy Living Systems
Ary Goldberger, M.D.

The Edge of the Edge Report
Roger Lewin, Ph.D. and Birute Regine, ED.D.

Stories and Applications
Marilyn Rymer, M.D. - “Growing A Stroke Program, Stroke by Stroke”

Advancing Clinical Quality
Kevin Dooley, Ph. D., Mark Levine, M.D. and Paul Plsek

Jazz and the Creative Process

Superwave Theory, Heart Rate Variability in Disease and Health:
A Provocative New Idea
Irving Dardik, M.D.

Complexity Models + Hard Data = Solutions to Hard Problems in Health Care
Kevin Dooley, Ph.D.

Stories and Applications of Complexity: Building Health Care Systems
with Helen Harte and Paul Plsek.

A Web of Relationships
Roger Lewin, Ph.D. and Birute Regine, ED.D.

Making More Sense: A Closing Conversation Paul Plsek

Appendix: Comments, Key Awarenesses and “Ah-Hah’s”