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Clinical judgment is vital to the delivery of high-quality healthcare. The challenge for clinicians – and the system as a whole – is that when it comes to clinical judgment, there is little guidance in regards to appropriate care.
Practicing Wisely™, a collaboration between Oliver Wyman and Marty Makary, MD, takes a new approach and aims to reduce unnecessary care, improve patient outcomes, and lower costs by providing clinicians with appropriateness measures.
Delivering high-quality care is central to a physician’s mission and identity… understanding how you perform on best-practices metrics is fundamental to improvingMARTY MAKARY MD, MPH, PRACTICING WISELY ADVISOR AND PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, AND HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE
Jim Fields is a Partner with Oliver Wyman in the Health & Life Sciences practice. Jim is the Chicago Office Head and co-leads the Government Programs platform. Jim is a Government Programs and Healthcare Reform specialist at Oliver Wyman and has guided several companies in the development and implementation of Exchange strategies, Seniors strategies and Medicaid expansion plans. He has deep experience in strategic planning and development of segment growth plans. Jim has worked with health plans of all sizes, as well as healthcare technology companies and health delivery systems.
Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. is a professor of surgery and health policy & management at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of the New York Times Bestselling book Unaccountable about doctor-led efforts to fix healthcare through increased transparency. Dr. Makary writes for The Wall Street Journal and TIME Magazine and he is a well-known patient advocate in the Washington D.C. Dr. Makary has published over 200 scientific articles in the medical literature and was the creator of the Surgical Checklist later popularized in the book The Checklist Manifesto. Dr. Makary served on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Surgery Checklist workgroup and chaired the W.H.O. technical workgroup on measuring surgical quality worldwide. Last year, Dr. Makary was named to America’s 20 Most Influential People in Health Care by Health Leaders Magazine.
