As part of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO) Lecture Series and the Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE) Seminar Series we welcome Sabina Nuti on Friday, November 9, 2018 at 9:00 AM in HS 106 (Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street, Toronto). This event is free of charge and open to anyone. Forward it to a friend who might be interested.

Improving Performance in Healthcare: Evaluation Systems and Governance Tools

The seminar will provide with insights on past, present and future work that the Management and Health laboratory of Sant’Anna School of Pisa has been carrying out since 2004. The speaker will present the results of the longstanding constructive research on performance evaluation systems (PES) in healthcare in Italy. In particular, she will discuss the power of benchmarking, of the visualization tools and how the PES has been used across the Italian Regions. Moreover, the authors will present the results achieved and the governance tools adopted to improve the regional and organizational performance.

Sabina Nuti

Full Professor, Institute of Management, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies

Sabina Nuti is Full Professor of Health Management in the Institute of Management at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy (SSSA). Her interests are on performance evaluation systems, efficiency and governance mechanism in health care. She is responsible for the Interregional performance evaluation systems for more than half of Italian Regions. She is a member of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health of the European Commission for the triennium 2016-2019. In 2016 she has been involved in the Joint Assessment Framework (JAF) in the Area of Health leaded by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Social Affairs. She is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Outcome Program at National Italian Agency for Regional Health Services. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. She is responsible for European and National research projects regarding healthcare management, performance evaluation and policies, and author of various national and international publications. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Health, Economics, Policy and Law, of the Cambridge University Press.

North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO)

The North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO) is a collaborative partnership of interested researchers, health organizations, and governments promoting evidence-informed health system policy decision-making. Due to the high degree of health system decentralization in the United States and Canada, the NAO is committed to focusing attention on comparing health systems and policies at the provincial and state level in federations.

Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE)

The Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE) aims to be the leading institution in Canada for developing practical research based solutions to ongoing concerns in Canadian health and health economics research. The work of the Centre aims to provide solutions to issues in Canadian health research for those in the academic and policy realms.