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Donald M. Berwick (born September 9, 1946) is a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to his work in the administration, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement [ 1 ] a not-for-profit organization.
In 1991, Dr. Don Berwick's non-profit Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) was founded. Rather than only focus on national health care quality improvement, IHI campaigned but nationally and worldwide. Directing the focus onto the patient as a consumer, the National Patient Safety Foundation was established in 1996.
An important heuristic of IHI is the Triple Aim. [47] IHI advocates for organizations and communities to aim to improve population health and the experience of care while reducing per capita cost. Founder Donald Berwick continues to serve on the Board of Directors, Kedar Mate serves as president and CEO.
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century is a report on health care quality in the United States published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on March 1, 2001.
Donald Berwick, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement [4] [5] Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010 [6]
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Money-Driven Medicine includes interviews of experts including Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; James Weinstein of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and bio-ethicist Larry ...
In the research phase of Escape Fire, the filmmakers came across an influential speech delivered by Dr. Donald Berwick years before he took office as the head of Medicare and Medicaid. The speech was published as a healthcare manifesto called "Escape Fire: Lessons for the Future of Healthcare."