Better Quote by Dave deBronkart

Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.

— Dave deBronkart

In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the…

— Dave deBronkart

“Value in health care is determined in addressing the patient’s particular medical condition over the full cycle of care, from monitoring and prevention to…

— Michael E. Porter

“The way to transform health care is to realign competition with value for patients. Value in health care is the health outcome per dollar…

— Michael E. Porter

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the…

— Andrew Saul

“Competition on value must revolve around results. The results that matter are patient outcomes per unit of cost at the medical condition level.”

— Michael E. Porter

Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you, as a…

— Atul Gawande

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because…

— Charles Boustany

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as…

— Atul Gawande

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or…

— Timothy Murphy

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise…

— Jack Kevorkian

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires…

— Atul Gawande