Improved Outcomes Quotes

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.

I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century.

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.

At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.

Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.

Health reform should be open and transparent.

If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and improve our overall well-being? That's exactly the meaning of free lunches- the idea that there are tools, methods, and policies that can help all of us make better decisions and as a consequence achieve what we desire-pg. 241

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.

Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals.