WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: October 1, 2015 ​ Featuring:  ​Shannon Brownlee, MS, Senior Vice President, Lown Institute; Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Jim Conway, MS, Adjunct Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Member, IOM Committee on Optimizing Scheduling in Health Care Kedar Mate, MD, Senior Vice President, IHI Aaron Stupple, MD, Hospitalist, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center   There’s growing awareness of the need to curb health care’s overuse of interventions that lack a strong evidence base, unnecessarily subject patients to potential harm, and are more expensive than equally effective, cheaper alternatives. Initiatives like Choosing Wisely and Costs of Care have done a great job sounding the proverbial alarm about particular treatments and procedures doctors have grown too accustomed to prescribing automatically; antibiotics, certain screenings, and imaging tests often top the list. Costs of Care has put the spotlight on the financial harm of