Written by the head of Institute for Healthcare (IHI), the nations leading organization for health care quality improvement, the book answers the question: how can we pursue improvement of population health and patient health while lowering cost? Innovative health care organizations around the country have formulated breakthrough solutions to some of the toughest and most expensive challenges in health care. This book identifies these innovations, describes and defines them, and prescribes a model for their spread. The authors measure and detail the impact of these changes on both the health of our nation and on costs savings.