Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation

At the ABIM Foundation, we’ve long thought of patient safety through the lens of professionalism.

Work at the Virginia Center for Health Innovation around Choosing Wisely is embracing the goals of the campaign, physician engagement and partnership with consumers and employers, instead of just focusing on cost reduction.

The Choosing Wisely campaign was designed to engage physicians, clinicians and patients in a conversation that would increase awareness of wasteful tests and procedures. Empowering both physicians and patients in leadership roles is what is powerful and almost magical about the campaign.

How much deeper could we have gone to “co-create” Choosing Wisely?

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.