The Radical Redesign of Healthcare: Changing the Balance of Power
A Lecture by Donald Berwick
The Medical Humanities, Arts, and Ethics Series

Reception to follow.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations requested. RSVP beginning Tuesday, March 5, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
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DESCRIPTION:
Donald Berwick, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will share his simple yet radical vision of how we can shift the balance of power in the patient-physician relationship and fundamentally redesign healthcare to achieve better care and better health at a cost we can afford. An acclaimed innovator who is committed to approaching the daunting problems in the healthcare system with optimism grounded in rigorous science, Berwick served as administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama and for more than 30 years has led efforts to transform healthcare into a system without errors, waste, delay, and unsustainable costs. While many commentators have described the ways our current hospital-centric healthcare system neither meets our needs nor maximizes health, Dr. Berwick is one of very few who have shown the concrete steps we can take to create something better. Blending clinical science, systems theory, psychology, statistics, and memorable stories from decades of work in the field, Berwick faces the problems of healthcare today and asks: What are our responsibilities to become active agents of change in redesigning healthcare? And how can we create a patient-centered, team-based system focused on value, efficiency, and equity?

Additional Links:
Donald Berwick | Leadership profile, Twitter
Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Facebook, Twitter
Modern Healthcare interview: “Physicians Can’t Be Silent on Public Policy Issues”
Video archive of Donald Berwick’s keynote addresses

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Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Family Medicine and Pediatrics), Alexander Capron (Law and Medicine), Lyn Boyd-Judson (Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics), Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine), and Lynn Kysh (USC Libraries). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL Program (Humanities, Ethics/Economics, Art, and the Law), the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.