Host Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Eugene Litvak, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Boston University's Health Policy Institute, about how the healthcare system has been looking for answers in all the wrong places, and how variability theory can cut costs and increase quality. The plan? To create a system where we all win.

What are the best ways to bring safety to the hospital setting? What type of support systems are available to doctors when errors occur? Dr. Don Berwick, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement shares thoughts on these topics and more in an interesting interview with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg.

How has our healthcare system gotten to its current fragmented state? Where are the opportunities to make the greatest impacts to improve the healthcare system? Join host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg in talking with healthcare expert Dr. Don Berwick, who is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

If we were to evaluate the US healthcare system on quality alone, how would we fare? How do we compare in quality to other healthcare systems? Join host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill in discussing quality of healthcare with Dr. John Whittington from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim Model is meant to be adopted by organizations wanting a strategic model to improve healthcare. In this segment, IHI's Dr. John Whittington talks about some of the organizations joining Triple Aim and what type of roles they play as 'Integrators.'

One of the components of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim initiative is to manage the per capita cost of healthcare. Is this an achievable goal? How do we get there? In this segment Dr. John Whittington, lead faculty of the Triple Aim Project discusses healthcare cost managment with host, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill.

In the first part of this interview, Dr. John Whittington talks with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill about the history and initiatives of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In the second part of this segment he talks about Triple Aim: a healthcare challenge to improve the health of a defined population, improve the individual's healthcare experience, and manage the per capita cost of healthcare. Look for other Triple Aim Segments to Learn more.

Maureen Bisognano, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, explores some of the theories of Dr. Noriaki Kano. In the healthcare industry the connections between quality and cost are not always clear. Mrs. Bisognano uses Dr. Kano's framework and demonstrates three ways that health care leaders can improve quality. She also speaks on the need to balance competing priorities and associated tensions between professionals of the healthcare and financial services respectively. Finally, Mrs. Bisognano describes new roles for physician leaders as they work to improve clinical and operational performance and achieve best financial outcomes.