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You’re either enlisted in the campaign to fix the broken healthcare system or you’re a hindrance. It’s your choice. Complacency has no room in Healthcare, we all must continue to grow, to evolve, and to improve our understanding of the countless dynamics that make up what is arguably the most complex and the most critical issue we face today…our broken healthcare system. • Estimates are that of the more than 33.6 million admissions to hospitals in the United States, between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths can be attributed to medical errors • Almost 2 percent of people admitted to a hospital experience a preventable adverse drug event thereby adding more than $2 billion to national hospital costs. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine introduced 6 “Aims for Improvement” for healthcare: 1st - Safe, 2nd - Effective, 3rd - Patient-Centered, 4th - Timely, 5th - Efficient, 6th - Equitable In this book, Patrick Harris proposes a 7th Aim, Educational, urging industry participants and observers to purposefully and actively seek a greater level of expertise of each component of the vast healthcare ecosystem.