Don Berwick, President and CEO of the Insitute for Healthcare Improvement, and MIT Professor Steven Spear coauthored an editorial in the Boston Globe last week called “A new design for healthcare delivery,” which focuses on the fact that more coverage does not have to mean more cost — if it comes with an ongoing commitment to […]

A couple of months ago, I was approached by Ted Ladd, who chairs the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) Board of Trustees, and by Paul Levy, who’s the CEO of the hospital, about joining the BIDMC’s Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is not the governing institution for the hospital. That’s the Board […]

Welcome to the Party, Pal

When Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks, people listen. As a result, I’ve had many people send me the op-ed he recently published in the Wall Street Journal on the state of health care.

His commentary basically said three things.

First, advances in medicine are amazing, and the system can do more today than at […]