WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: May 17, 2012 Featuring: Daniel B. Wolfson, Executive Vice President and COO, ABIM Foundation Steven Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP, President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review – Institute for Technology Assessment Amanda Kost, MD, Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine Donald Goldmann, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Karen Boudreau, MD, FAAFP, Chief Medical Officer, Boston Medical Center, HealthNet Plan; Former Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Director for IHI Continuum Portfolio Of all the sources of excessive health care spending, none may be higher on the list than the habit of ordering lots of expensive tests and procedures. This appetite for the best of what high-tech medicine can offer – whether warranted or not – is a big factor behind estimates that up to a third of health care spending in the US is wasteful and unnecessary. But everyone also has a story of someone, maybe