Yale School of Medicine assistant professor recognized for healthcare cost reduction program

Robert Fogerty, assistant professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine, is a 2013 Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely award winner for his program to reduce healthcare costs.  

One of six inaugural awardees, Fogerty was honored in the innovations category for his development of I-CARE: Interactive Cost-Awareness Resident Exercise. The program engages faculty and trainees in a friendly competition to create effective, lower-cost care plans using traditional structures.

With an M.D. and M.P.H. from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Fogerty focuses his research on quality improvement and patient safety. Specifically, he works on communication between healthcare providers especially around patient care, with a particular focus on cost-awareness education.

Entrants for the inaugural prize were judged on identifying, characterizing, catalyzing, and promoting ideas that improved healthcare costs and outcomes.  

Two non-profit organizations, the Costs of Care and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, partnered to offer the first annual award.