Conference

Texas EMS Conference – Model for Improvement

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on November 22, 2011

The Live Music Capitol of the World – Austin, Texas – has a different buzz downtown today. The convention center is filled with Texas’ volunteer and career emergency medical services caregivers. Held annually, the Texas EMS Conference rivals many national EMS conference events and draws industry leading faculty from across the country and caregivers from [...]

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ESO Wave 2011 – Data for Learning and Improvement

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on November 17, 2011

More than a 100 people convened in Austin, TX at the Austin Convention Center for Wave 2011. Sponsored by ESO Solutions, a technology company developing solutions for emergency medical services organizations, Wave 2011 is a 2-day conference produced for its clients. It brings industry leaders and ESO’s deep pool of talented staff together to provide [...]

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Opening Plenary – Texas Medical Group Management Association

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on April 21, 2011

On April 7th, Dave Williams had the pleasure of opening the annual meeting of the Texas Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in San Antonio, Texas with a plenary talk on the Science for Improvement (see link below). More than 200 members came together for a mutli-day conference with a focus on accelerating performance. The Texas [...]

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2011 TEDxAustin Reflections

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on March 19, 2011

***UPDATE: The TEDxAustin talks have been added to YouTube. Watch them here. Last month, if you followed my contributions to social media (@dmw911), you likely caught one of the many snippets from my experience at TEDxAustin. On Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Austin, Texas played host to an all day, locally organized TED event. (Yes, sadly [...]

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Business On the Rocks

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on June 1, 2010

Okay, so my vacation mindset didn’t last as long as I’d hoped. I slipped back into the work mode and never really figured out how to totally relax and enjoy a week’s vacation. There’s something strange about the psychological wiring of a CEO (or maybe just me) that I can’t turn off work totally. So [...]

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