Breaking the Cycle of Waste in Healthcare

The Boston Globe
October 22, 2008

...The search thus far [for waste in health care] has focused on operational issues (inefficient claims processing or ineffective use of technologies, for example) as the primary culprit. But a recent set of reports from the New England Healthcare Institute has done much to quantify specific, actionable examples of healthcare waste in systemwide clinical care.

NEHI's research, which describes waste as "the triumvirate of overuse, underuse and misuse of care," identifies five sources of wasteful practices that, if eliminated, would offer dramatic cost savings...

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