What could do?

What is the most important Don Berwick could do as head of the CMS to improve the quality and reduce health care costs?  Lets face it as head of a humongous Agency, it is difficult to make changes.  You've got to choose your battles carefully, for every cause has a constituency and an opponent.  Gridlock is a fact of life in Washington, D.C.: the system is designed for this result.

We simply, but adopt that you had a chance, an innovative regulation or proposal where even opponents would get little moral ground on traction, say.

  Here's mine:

Announce that to create a site where every hospital is invited you enter two or three real-time metrics in terms of reducing schäden.beginnen with central line infections.There is a common definition of the CDC bereitgestellt.Viele hospitals pursue their rate of infection.

Specify a password-protected template and quarterly Figurefor to senden.einrichten Web page so the cumulative sequence numbers in a trend line, you can see the world in his or her your hospital is translated to each hospital CEO (Yes, CEO!), so someone a givenhospital's can observe progress over time.

"Why CEO? well, like in a recent Washington Post story stated:"

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