Choosing Wisely®: A Co-Creation Experience?
September 8, 2016
How much deeper could we have gone to “co-create” Choosing Wisely?
The Professor and Professionalism
July 19, 2016
Imagine five special leaders in the quality and safety movement–a dream team, if you will–together on a single stage discussing the legendary professor and quality improvement pioneer, Avedis Donabedian.
Greater Detroit Area Health Council Visit: Detour on the Choosing Wisely® Roadshow
May 11, 2016
All journeys take detours and I am very glad this one took me to Detroit to visit the Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC) and their partners.
Research Community Works to Reduce Low-Value Care
April 25, 2016
To help close gaps and develop a coordinated approach to research around low-value care, AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation have joined to create the Research Community on Low-Value Care.
Choosing Wisely® Roadshow: Richer Collaboration with the American College of Radiology
March 16, 2016
It was only appropriate that the next meeting of the Choosing Wisely Roadshow would be with the American College of Radiology (ACR). Like ASCO, ACR was one of the original partners of the campaign.
Choosing Wisely® Roadshow: A Visit to the American Society of Clinical Oncology
February 19, 2016
We have decided to hit the road and visit some of the Choosing Wisely partners to find out more about their current efforts to reduce low-value care and learn how we could continue to engage them in the campaign.
My Lean and Mean Physical Exam
November 10, 2015
My routine physical represented a “lean,” less-wasteful physical; it focused on high-yield tests and the most beneficial exam.
Choosing Wisely® – Building Bridges Across Care
October 6, 2015
When the ABIM Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely campaign, we created a set of operating principles for our society partners and gave them guidelines to help them develop their lists. Among these guidelines was a stipulation that recommendations needed to be within the control or purview of that specialty. Each society was asked to take... Read more »
A Sacred Moment Ruined
September 24, 2015
On July 28, my wife’s brother, Marcos, died from cancer at the age of 58. He died at home under hospice care and was heavily sedated over the last weeks of his life. Marcos had undergone two chemotherapy regimens and one experimental treatment. His doctor was exemplary – she provided the best treatment options yet... Read more »
Docs Call Foul on Mark Cuban
April 3, 2015
An article in Forbes magazine entitled “Mark Cuban Doesn’t Understand Health Care” highlighted a series of tweets sent out by Mr. Cuban telling his 2.8 million followers to obtain quarterly blood tests in order to “have a baseline of your own personal health.” The Forbes piece focused on the “problems with Cuban’s argument” and included... Read more »