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IOM’s landmark reports over the years

Connected coverage — selected articles on trends, challenges and controversies in the changing world of medicine.

Connected Coverage. Posted Oct. 8, 2012.

 

When the Institute of Medicine says something, people throughout the health system listen. The IOM, founded in 1970 as the health care arm of the National Academy of Sciences, functions to provide nonpartisan, practical reform advice to policymakers. The institute’s reports often are described as groundbreaking, seminal events in the world of health policy.

American Medical News regularly follows the work of the IOM and the specific impact the institute has on debates about physician issues. Some of the systemic problems the IOM has identified over the years include a prevalence of medical errors that cost patient lives, delivery system shortcomings that interfere with quality improvement, and wasteful utilization of health system resources that rob from patient care. The good news in these reports, however, is that the IOM thinks there are plenty of things that doctors and others can do about it.

IOM: Physicians play key role in stopping health system waste

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/10/08/edsa1008.htm