Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation

Dialogue has to start with the assumption that all parties have good intentions and the belief that most people are reasonable most of the time.

This month marks the seventh anniversary of the Choosing Wisely campaign, which launched on April 4, 2012 to much public fanfare. Nine specialty societies took a courageous step, answering our call for clinicians to identify five things that are done too frequently in their fields and for which there was no evidence of patient benefit…. Read more »

[Bundled payments] serve to reinforce the goals we at the Foundation are trying to advance—professionalism, trust and choosing wisely.

Using “influencer marketing” to promote your brand or message… has the potential to create a whole new level of conflicts of interest, one that the profession—and medical schools in particular—need to prepare for.

This challenge is a key component of the Foundation’s new focus on issues of trust in health care. We chose to emphasize trust because this crucial aspect of an effective health care system is currently under threat.