The United States health care system has been described as inefficient, delivering
inconsistent levels of care and inordinately expensive; the question is not if it needs …

The Triple Aim—defined as enhancing the experience of care for the patient, improving the
health of populations, and reducing the per capita costs of health care—has become the …

In 2008, Don Berwick and his colleagues 1 published a seminal article on health care
delivery entitled,“The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Cost,” where they posited that “improving …

CHICAGO—Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, has devoted much of his professional life
advocating for improving quality and outcomes of health care through evidence-based …

In 2014, Drs. Bodenheimer and Sinsky introduced the Quadruple Aim into our health system
improvement lexicon (1). Building off of the Triple Aim articulated by Dr. Berwick (2), an early …

In February of this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced
its “Universal Foundation” for aligning quality measures across its own programs. The CMS …

Case studies of three organizations participating in the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement's Triple Aim initiative shed light on how they are partnering with providers and …

Editor's Note: In a paper in the recently released May/June issue of Health Affairs, Donald
Berwick, John Whittington, and Tom Nolan of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement lay …

Written by the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a
leading health care journalist, this groundbreaking book examines how leading …

Part 1 of this essay argued that the root causes of primary care's problems lie in (1) the low
percent of national health expenditures dedicated to primary care and (2) overly large …