I have been talking with Dr. Brad Stuart on the topic of innovation in health care. This is the third installment in that series. Our topic in this conversation is “accountable care” and the implications this movement has for cost control, for quality of care, and for fostering innovation. In the first part of this series, here, I set up the health care issue as one that is as much about paradigms and conversations as it is about medicine. In the second, here, I talked with Dr. Stuart about what he sees as some of the more critical high-level challenges in health care and his views about what we as a country should focus on as we continue our work to improve health care delivery.
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