Healthcare Innovation October 28, 2024
David Raths

During podcast hosted by the MaineHealth ACO, Associate Chief Quality Officer Mark Parker, M.D., describes effort to reduce misdiagnoses

Mark Parker, M.D., MaineHealth’s associate chief quality officer, recently highlighted a new project to reduce misdiagnoses across the Portland-based nonprofit health system.

MaineHealth has nine hospitals and also provides comprehensive pediatric care services, an extensive behavioral health care network, diagnostic services as well as home health, hospice and senior care services to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire.


During a podcast hosted by the MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization, Parker, a nephrologist by training, said the effort to reduce misdiagnoses grew out of other work the quality team at MaineHealth has been doing over the past year around diagnostic excellence.

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