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Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols

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

Dr. Ward December 7, 2025 No Comments

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

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.

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

Dr. Ward April 7, 2021 3 Comments

ACO Culture

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

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

Dr. Ward November 30, 2011 4 Comments

ACO Structure & Governance

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

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

Dr. Ward August 6, 2011 1 Comment