Looking Forward with the Triple Aim
It is surprising that we have no good metrics to track our progress toward the Triple Aim. We have lagging numbers on what we spend as a nation and debatable public health indicators of gross population metrics. No one knows how many healthcare organizations have...
Leaping Barriers to the Triple Aim
In “The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Costs” Berwick, Nolan and Whittington describe American healthcare as the most fragmented, most expensive and least effective care delivery system among all of the advanced economies of the world, and they identify the barriers...
In Defense of Lean
Rarely do you see a clinician, researcher, teacher, philosopher, ethicist and writer all bundled up in one person inside one white coat. Jerome Groopman has been such a person. Dr. Groopman and his wife Dr. Pamela Hartzband, an endocrinologist, are one of healthcare’s...
Where Healthcare Should Focus in 2016
I have been looking forward to 2016 and asking myself where healthcare should focus in the year ahead. In this connection, Don Berwick’s speech at the 27th Annual IHI Forum had a profound effect on me. You can watch it on YouTube. I appreciated his insightful and...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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