Today’s New York Times has an editorial entitled “Quality Care at Bargain Prices” that focuses on the findings from the most recently updated Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. The editorial concludes:
Reducing the cost of medical care will require changing longstanding habits — no easy feat. It may not happen until the medical profession reaches consensus [...]
Denis Cortese, M.D., Mayo Clinic’s president and CEO, was featured in an extended interview last Sunday in the Commentary section of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Here’s an excerpt:
Q: THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM: CRISIS OR NOT?
A: To the extent that people say the system is broken, I would reject that as a too-simple thought. There is [...]
Mayo Clinic president and CEO Denis Cortese, M.D., will be the featured guest on a C-SPAN call-in program on Friday, March 21, 2008. The 30-minute program, which coincides with Dr. Cortese’s speech at the National Press Club later in the day, begins at 9:30 a.m. EDT.
As with his National Press Club speech, Dr. Cortese [...]
Denis Cortese, M.D., Mayo Clinic’s president and chief executive officer, will be the featured speaker on Friday, March 21 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cortese’s speech will begin at 1 p.m. ET and will be entitled “Creating a Health Care System That Works for Americans.” He will address the need for health [...]
The goal of the 2008 Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform was to identify and prioritize concrete action steps, for both the private sector and government, that would help create a high-performance health care system.
More than 400 participants worked together to develop a list of proposed action steps, and then voted on which [...]
Tom Brokaw moderated a panel discussion on coordination of care, with the following members:
Donald Berwick, M.D., president and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Dr. Berwick is one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care quality and improvement issues. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick recently completed his [...]
Tom Brokaw led four panelists in a recap of the first policy forum, the topic of which was Health Insurance for All Americans. These panelists represented a cross-section of the forum participants, and included:
John Rother, director of Policy and Strategy for AARP. Rother is responsible for the federal and state public policies of AARP, for [...]
Tom Brokaw led a discussion featuring some of the leading thinkers on health care reform, including:
Ian Morrison, Ph.D., an internationally known author, consultant and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment.
Michael Porter, Ph.D., the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School. [...]
Dennis Rivera chairs SEIU Healthcare, a newly created organization of more than 1,000,000 health care workers that is dedicated to organizing America’s millions of unorganized health care workers and fixing the country’s broken health care system. SEIU Healthcare was launched in June 2007 as the health care division of the 1.8 million-member Service Employees [...]
Helen Darling is president of the National Business Group on Health, which is dedicated to providing practical solutions to its employer-members’ most important health care problems. Its 292 members, including 65 of the Fortune 100 in 2006, purchase health and disability benefits for more than 50 million employees, retirees and dependents.
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