It’s time to enter a new era  of healthcare that returns to the purpose embraced by old-school practitioners and combines it with the accountability of today’s healthcare demands, the former head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said.

Today, the two eras of healthcare conflict with one another, Don Berwick, M.D., now a senior fellow with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, said during a video interview withHospitals & Health Networks.

In the past, healthcare providers were taught that trying harder and being noble generated excellence. Today, he said, with evidence that healthcare is not performing as it should in terms of patient safety, patient-centeredness and cost, the system has shifted to one of reward and punishment.

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