It Will Be a Challenging Future For Nonprofit Healthcare Boards
When I joined the Harvard Community Health Plan board in1990, the Chairman was a very wise and experienced executive from Federated Department Stores, Maurice Lazarus. “Moogie” as he preferred to be called, projected a throwback image to another day when wise and...
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...
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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