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Editor’s Note. This post is authored by Eugene Litvak PhD, Arnold Milstein MD, MPH and Mark Smith MD, MBA. Photos and bios for Milstein and Smith are above. Litvak is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization and also an Adjunct Professor in Operations Management in the Department of Health Policy and Management [...]
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Editor’s Note: In addition to Arnold Milstein and Pranav Kothari (pictures and bios above), coauthors of this post include Rushika Fernandopulle MD, MPP, of Harvard Medical School and Renaissance Health in Boston, and Theresa Helle of the Boeing Company in Seattle. For more on health care delivery system innovations and reforms, see the Sept-Oct 2009 issue of Health Affairs, [...]
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Editor’s Note: The post below by Arnold Milstein is published in tandem with the release of Health Affairs’ Sept-Oct. 2008 issue, a thematic volume titled “Overhauling The Delivery System“ that focuses on medical homes, retail clinics, and other models of health care delivery innovation. Future articles by Milstein will identify the four medical practices he refers to in his post [...]
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Editor’s Note: Today, The Health Affairs Blog concludes a series of four posts on trends in performance measurement and performance-based payment in health care. The series focuses particularly on the increasing emphasis being placed on measuring and rewarding cost-efficiency. Arnold Milstein (below) and Howard Beckman contribute posts today. Last Thursday, James Robinson and Tom Williams weighed in. Using the estimation methods [...]
