I have enormous respect for Dr. Don Berwick – a brilliant, clear, and articulate health care leader, committed to advancing affordable, quality health care for all. Apart from his insights and skills related to improving our health care system, he withstood the maelstrom of Washington politics with grace and professionalism. A brief Q&A style interview with Don is available through the Commonwealth Fund website – click HERE to watch (10 mins) “Don Berwick: Reflections on the Affordable Care Act.” Not only does Don describe aspects of the Affordable Care Act that he believes is helping to improve our health care system, but he offers further insights into how a future health care system should function differently and the changes in thinking required of health care leaders to bring it into reality.
The connection to the work of Health Quality Partners (HQP; http://www.hqp.org)? To achieve a more affordable, accessible, and higher quality health care system it will be necessary to aggressively develop and deploy effective preventive models like HQP’s nurse care management program – providing care that does not begin or end at some business unit boundary or operational or informational silo (e.g., hospital, physician office, community organization, family). A service that makes the whole system work better to avoid preventable human suffering and expenditures. We have one that’s already been proven through 11 years of intensive research. What are we waiting for?
The connection to the work of Health Quality Partners (HQP; http://www.hqp.org)? To achieve a more affordable, accessible, and higher quality health care system it will be necessary to aggressively develop and deploy effective preventive models like HQP’s nurse care management program – providing care that does not begin or end at some business unit boundary or operational or informational silo (e.g., hospital, physician office, community organization, family). A service that makes the whole system work better to avoid preventable human suffering and expenditures. We have one that’s already been proven through 11 years of intensive research. What are we waiting for?