A Six Sigma Approach to Health Care Reform

Roll Call
December 14, 2009

Health care in the U.S. needs more than reform; it needs to be re-engineered. The U.S. health care system wastes $700 billion annually on the kinds of systemic inefficiencies that would make a quality management guru cringe...

 ...Preventable treatment errors, ranging from complications because of procedure-related injuries to treatment of adverse drug reactions account for $75 billion to $100 billion in annual health care spending...A February 2008 study from the New England Healthcare Institute estimates that 5 percent to 10 percent of all patients admitted to acute care hospitals acquire one or more infections.

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