Dr. Ward’s Health Care Heroes

In response to a JAMA Viewpoint offering 4 principles for public health post COVID, I say yes, but we need a 5th principle – Science staying in its lane.

In a recent issue of JAMA, Daniel Morgan (U Maryland) and Deborah Korenstein (Icahn/Mt. Sinai) offered a viewpoint article that revisits the important evaluative conversation about the performance of our public health system during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers four useful principles for a “new approach to public health.” In this post, I will briefly

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Berwick and Gilfillan offer six recommendations for reinventing CMMI. My response is yes, but they don’t address the #1 issue: failure to achieve critical mass.

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In a recent health policy viewpoint article in JAMA, Drs. Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan noted that, although the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has done some good during its ten+ years of existence, it has failed to “become the engine that it could be for transforming the nation’s health care finance

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Health Care Heroes: Don Berwick, MD – Adapting industrial quality improvement principles to the improvement of health care processes

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Last week, Don Berwick, MD, announced his resignation as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Now is a good time to explain why Dr. Berwick is one of my all time health care heroes. Apparently, I talk about Dr. Berwick a lot. A few years ago, I received one of my

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Health Care Heroes: Wilmer Rutt, MD – Adapting the R&D Concept to Health Care Provider Organizations

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This morning, I read the results from a clinical trial of ovarian cancer screening in JAMA. The trial showed that ovarian cancer screening was not effective in saving lives. I was interested in the article because I was one of the investigators in that trial, which began in the early 1990s. Henry Ford Health System

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