Healthcare Innovation October 15, 2019
Donald Berwick, M.D. has participated in the current discussion of waste in the U.S. healthcare system in JAMA online, with an editorial urging massive changes in physician practice patterns
Donald Berwick, M.D., who has been a well-known and well-respected leader in the U.S. healthcare for decades, and who was administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from July 2010 through early December 2011, has authored a probing analysis of the problem of waste in the U.S. healthcare industry, as part of an ensemble articles on the subject of waste.
Dr. Berwick’s editorial, in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association Online), entitled “Elusive Waste: The Fermi Paradox in US Health Care,”...