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What Will it Take to Avoid Avoidable Care? Nothing Less than a Culture Shift Say Conference Organizers

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Last week the first major medical meeting devoted to the topic of avoidable care was held in Cambridge, MA. The two-day Avoiding Avoidable Care Conference was organized by the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the New America Foundation, and co-hosted by the Institute of Medicine. Attendees included experienced, practicing clinicians from a broad range of medical specialties, along with thought leaders in health policy. Continue reading →

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[H&HN Daily] Shared Decision-Making, Back Again

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

"As in may cases in health care, shared decision-making isn't new. It's been lying in the weeds quietly growing, waiting for the right time to re-emerge. Its roots trace back to the 2001 report, 'Crossing the Quality Chasm' by the Institute of Medicine, which emphasized shared decision-making in the 10 rules for redesigning health car processes. And those of us who are getting on up there, as they say -- I mean in collective wisdom not age, of course -- remember that it dates back to 1989 when John Wennberg, M.D., co-founded the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. (And if anyone knows how long it takes for new ideas to take hold in health care, it's Dr. Wennberg."

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