Families USA Health Action 2008: Don Berwick MD on Everything

Through patience, an ability to articulate need and solutions, and diplomacy, Dr. Berwick has facilitated tremendous quality advances in hospitals across the country. And that lends him enormous authority to urge the process on. At the Families USA meeting, he described his vision.

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Health Care Quote of the Year

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Paul Levy, the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, notes that one of the real values of transparency is encouraging organizations to be serious about self-improvement. Read More...
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Not Paying For Preventable Errors: A Big Step

On October 1, 2008, Medicare will change decades of policy and stop paying health systems for errors that were preventable. After Medicare took the lead, the major commercial health plans and many Medicaid plans followed, significantly raising the quality bar for hospitals and health systems.

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