HIMSSCast: The Quintuple Aim – why health equity is a critical addition

In this podcast, we discuss a new concept that has blossomed from an old one. The old concept is The Quadruple Aim. The new concept? The Quintuple Aim. What’s new? Health equity.

The guest is Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Earlier this year, Kedar co-authored a JAMA Viewpoint proposing the “Quintuple Aim” for healthcare improvement, which would add a fifth aim: to advance health equity.

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Talking points:

  • What is the Triple Aim and what does it cover?

  • What happened in healthcare that made the industry expand the Triple Aim to the Quadruple Aim?

  • What happened to require the Quintuple Aim?

  • What is the Quintuple Aim?

  • How does health equity fit into the equation?

  • What are some examples of how the first four elements of the Quintuple Aim can help foster the fifth, health equity?

  • What is it going to take for the healthcare industry to switch from the Quadruple Aim and embrace the Quintuple Aim?

More about this episode:

Quadruple aim: More than half of hospitals plan IT spending increases to get there

Navigating Healthcare Marketing: The Quadruple Aim As a Compass

Health 2.0: Providers must reinvent themselves to achieve quadruple aim

Improve patient care – aim for the Triple

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