Archive for 2014

Mayo Clinic Faces New Price of Success

Los Angeles Times – Quotes Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Economics, on the successes of the Mayo Clinic, and mentions a Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care finding that the United States could save up to $50 billion annually on end-of-life care by excising waste and unnecessary care.

Dartmouth Center to Fold into Institute for Health and Policy

Valley News – Discusses the merging of the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science into the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and quotes Director of the Dartmouth Institute Elliott Fisher, and Director of the Dartmouth Center Albert Mulley, who states, “I really do believe that Dartmouth has a distinct understanding of health care that can really…benefit people in the U.S. and the world.”