Monday, October 19, 2009

Don and Tom's marvelous adventure

In preparation for a day-long mini-course at the 21st Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, Florida (December 6-9, 2009), Don Berwick and Tom Nolan at the Institute for HealthCare Improvement are asking for your input on how to design a low-cost, high-quality health care system for the future. To learn more, submit your ideas and stories, and engage in a conversation about health system transformation, click here.

Here's the initial compelling question on the site:

"In an average American community with 500,000 people, what three changes in the health care system (organizations, resources, personnel, etc.) would contribute most to simultaneously reducing the per capita costs of care and improving care outcomes and health status?"

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