We’ve lost a major force for good in health care. Dr. Jerome Grossman, once CEO of Tufts-New England
Medical Center, passed away yesterday. He was only 68, an example of another good-man-dying-too-young.
Dr. Grossman’s ideas made big impacts on American health care for decades. He chaired many Institute of Medicine (IOM) panels and wrote countless pieces in peer-reviewed journals (including the seminal Crossing the Quality Chasm
report). He was one of the earliest proponents of analyzing quality and
medical outcomes in health care. He was an early champion and adopter
of information technology in health care.
Listen to a podcast of him
talking about aligning IT in health care for quality here from an IOM meeting held in 2000.
Most recently, at Harvard, he had been was the founder of the Center for Business & Government’s Health Care Delivery Policy Program, which he directed during the past seven years.
He had been co-authoring a book on innovative disruptions in health care with Clayton Christensen,
a fellow colleague at Harvard. It will be published by the end of the
year, and I can’t wait to hear Dr. Grossman’s voice again through his
writing.
Jane’s Hot Points: Dr.
Grossman leaves behind a legacy of great writing on health care and
reform. Add the following to your portfolio of must-reads in health…
The "Genome" of Health Care Delivery Innovation: Productivity
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/hcdp/readings/productivity_11-2.pdf
Thoughts on "Crossing the Quality Chasm"
http://www.pbgh.org/roundtable/jerome_grossman_presentation.pdf
Beyond Employer-Sponsored Insurance, for Brookings
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2007/0502health-care.aspx
Using System Engineering to Improve Health Care, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=20980&topicid=1048
It was really very sad to hear the news……… May god give him peace in the heaven……………………
This is hard to believe, and hard to accept. Dr. G was a pioneer, the first head of Ambulatory Services at an inpatient care palace called the Mass General. He was a brilliant, innovative manager and a restless, playful intellect. He was also a mentor to many dozens of young people. He changed a lot of lives for the better, and will be missed.