The Dartmouth Atlas
For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians.
An Agenda for Change
Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration.
Rising health care costs are a major challenge to the American economy, particularly at a time of deepening recession and a renewed commitment to extend coverage to the uninsured.
Rising health care costs are a major challenge to the American economy, particularly at a time of deepening recession and a renewed commitment to extend coverage to the uninsured.
Voices of TDI
"We actually have the greatest potential of any place in the country to figure out how to get it right."
Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH
Director of Population Health, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Director of Population Health, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
In the News
"Yes, models for cost-efficient health care do exist"
Jim Landers
The Dallas Morning News
July 28, 2009
"A Healthier Way to Pay Doctors"
Jeffrey Kluger
Time
October 26, 2009
"Making Health Care ‘Accountable’"
Michelle Andrews
The New York Times Prescriptions Blog
October 09, 2009
"Senator: Disparities in Medicare costs must end"
John Dorschner
The Miami Herald
October 16, 2009
Consumer Reports & TDI
When the respected and authoritative magazine, Consumer Reports, decided to create a Health Ratings Center, they chose to partner with TDI, using data from the Dartmouth Atlas. Read their report.