Making Systemwide Improvements in Health Care

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Over the past 10 years, Jönköping County in Sweden has made impressive progress in improving its health care system. The motor of improvement work is Qulturum, an innovation and learning center within the health system. Qulturum has no responsibilities for clinical or administrative functions; its sole mission is improvement work. Qulturum's improvement strategy is based on 3 principles: (1) Learning is key to improvement, (2) Improvement needs to be broad and deep, and (3) Improvement must be both bottom-up and top-down. Based on these principles, Jönköping County has achieved timely access to primary and specialty care, has improved the care of a number of chronic conditions, and has accomplished these goals without increases in expenditures. The United States could benefit by instituting Qulturum-like centers of learning and innovation within health systems.

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