Company Profile
Company Overview
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI) is a dynamic force within Dartmouth College dedicated to improving health care through education, research, policy reform, leadership improvement, and communication with patients and the public.
• An Ambitious Mission: To measurably improve health and health care value through innovation, research and education.
• An Altruistic Vision: A sustainable, patient and family-centered health care system committed to a healthy population.
• A Core of Values: Excellence, integrity, respect, transparency and healthy skepticism.
Company History
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) was founded in 1988 by Dr. John E. Wennberg as the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS). Among its 30 years of accomplishments, it has established a new discipline and educational focus in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, introduced and advanced the concept of shared decision-making for patients, demonstrated unwarranted variation in the practice and outcomes of medical treatment, and shown that more health care is not necessarily better care. Healthy skepticism about new treatments and medical “breakthroughs,” an understanding of the risks and benefits of many common therapies and surgeries, and unique educational programs have produced more informed agents of change among physicians, health professionals, the media, and the public