The future of quality and patient safety: Insights from healthcare leaders and opportunities for collaboration with JCI

Dr Jonathan Perlin

Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Commission enterprise, which includes Joint Commission, Joint Commission International (JCI), and the National Quality Forum (NQF). Previously, as President, Clinical Operations, and Chief Medical Officer, HCA Healthcare, Dr. Perlin led clinicians, data scientists and researchers in developing a learning health system model for improving care across 189 hospitals. His team’s work achieved national recognition for preventing elective pre-term deliveries, reducing maternal mortality, increasing sepsis survival, and developing public-private-academic partnerships for improving infection prevention and treating COVID-19. Before HCA, Dr. Perlin was Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He led VA to national prominence for the first national electronic health record and benchmark clinical performance. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), he has co-chaired initiatives on digital health, combatting opioids and sustainable healthcare. He has served on numerous boards and commissions (including MedPAC and the CBO Panel of Health Advisors) and holds faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University as a Clinical Professor of Health Policy and at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Adjunct Professor of Health Administration.