Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Innovation In The Health Care System

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nations when it comes to preventable deaths. If we did as well as the top-performing countries, France and Australia, close to 90,000 deaths could be prevented each year. As costs continue to climb, adding to the country’s deficit and snarling our politics, we ask about innovative ways to rethink the delivery and business model of health care. How should doctors be paid? How do we address end-of-life care? Should we rethink the HMO system? Guests include: Dr. Tim Gustafson, principal at Innosight Consulting, Michael Chernew, Ph.D. professor of health care policy in the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and Jeffrey Selberg, executive vice president and COO , Institute for Health Care Improvement.