Clinical Quality

Overly-complex, inefficient, ineffective. How the health care industry wastes nearly a trillion dollars a year.

August 28, 2023

$935 billion. It’s hard to imagine what that number really means. It’s approximately the amount the United States spends on…

Lemon-ade

Got hospital “lemons” in your network? Ditch them or make lemon-“aid”?

August 23, 2021

Back in October 2019, we published a blog post on the challenges of building a high-performance network (HPN).  We landed on the…

It’s ok to not be ok: Mitigating the long-term mental health impacts of the pandemic

February 16, 2021

It’s 8pm and, as a supervisor at a grocery store, you’re making sure all employees working the cash registers and…

Rick Abbott

Rick Abbott on lowering costs by focusing on quality

August 17, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco chats with Rick Abbott, VP of Product and Market Solutions at Premera Blue Cross. Premera Blue Cross is…

Referee Stock Image Reform Evaluation Framework

If you’re playing without a REF, you can’t trust the scoreboard

June 22, 2020

Imagine trying to watch or play sports without a referee.  Baseball teams could declare every at bat a home run,…

Pregnant Black Couple

Want to improve maternity care? Embrace health equity

April 28, 2020

Mother’s Day is around the corner, and one of the greatest gifts the United States can give to mothers is…

primary care strategy

Why many employers have primary care on their mind

March 02, 2020

Last year, Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway/ JP Morgan Chase’s Haven Healthcare made a splash across the health care industry, not only for the…

CA Maternal Care Quality

California is changing the game on maternal care quality

July 01, 2019

California is leading the charge to defy the distressing maternal mortality trends nationwide. While nationally the rate of maternal deaths…

Rachel Brodie

Rachel Brodie on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

June 10, 2019

Suzanne Delbanco calls Rachel Brodie, Director of the Performance Information programs at Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) to discuss…

Sam Arsenault

Sam Arsenault on using quality ratings to improve outcomes in substance use disorder treatment

May 28, 2019

Suzanne Delbanco catches up with Sam Arsenault, Director of National Treatment Quality Initiatives for Shatterproof, on the latest milestones in…

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