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We don’t build each issue of HMI WORLD around a common theme, but sometimes those themes emerge on their own. The theme that jumps out in the November-December 2007 issue is outputs.
Around Harvard
Quality reading with Dr. Thomas Lee
When he’s not on the treadmill enjoying the latest Boston Red Sox game, Dr. Thomas H. Lee is engaged in a variety of efforts aimed at improving health care quality—as a practicing physician, as a health care executive, and as a policymaker.
As a member of the Massachusetts Healthcare Quality & Cost Council, Dr. Lee is working to develop and coordinate the implementation of state-wide quality improvement goals that are intended to lower or contain the growth in health care costs while improving quality and access. At Partners Community HealthCare, where he is Chief Executive Officer of an integrated health care delivery system, he focuses on clinical performance. “Quality, efficiency, and safety: my colleagues and I measure it, try to improve it, and then integrate it with our other business strategies.”
Dr. Lee is an avid reader whose selection reflects the diversity of his professional focus. “I get most of my ideas and inspiration from journals and talking to great colleagues,” he said.
For insights applicable to his administrative roles, Dr. Lee turns regularly to Harvard Business Review and Modern Healthcare, and recently to two books on organization strategy: Built to Change (Lawler & Morley)and Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne). As a practicing internist and cardiologist, he’s challenged to stay up to date on clinical practice as well. His required reading list includes many of the usual suspects: New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Lancet, as well as publications covering his clinical specialty, such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Circulation.
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