Use Data, IT, and Trained Professionals to Their Fullest
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Paula Skjefte We must have some kind of mandate on transparencies across systems, including electronic medical records and data transmission capabilities. This would decrease redundancies in diagnostics and drive more rapid treatment and resolution . . . which will ultimately contain costs and improve outcomes. |
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Dee Thibodeau The processes and systems that are used to assist in the delivery of care need to be completely reinvented. The health care industry needs to harness the power of IT like almost every other industry already has. This can be achieved by assembling an innovative group of people who know the current system but can think outside the box. |
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Mike Chappuis Five percent of the population drives 55 percent of the expense within health care. Current medical care systems are acute-based and not geared to manage these patients. We use expensive hotel models to manage chronic conditions. By radically re-engineering the process utilizing disruptive innovation and patient-centric solutions, improving outcomes, satisfaction, and value; we can match medical care expertise to patient need when and where needed. We can accomplish this through increased data analysis, patient cost analysis, and openness and willingness to explore new care delivery models. |
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Lisa Griffin-Vincent We have buckets of data and information we are not using to the fullest as it relates to disease management, new therapies, and system efficiencies. Tackling the governance issues around who owns the data being generated by all the encounters between health care providers and patients is huge. More funding to explore data ownership and governance models and pilot demonstration programs will be needed to move things along. And, for some reason, the model of WebMD has not succeeded like we thought it would. |
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Piyumi Samaratunga As our health care professionals retire and we face a shortage of trained professionals, we should look toward expanding immigration programs for foreign-trained professionals. We could tap the federal government rules that enable this—for example, only 30 slots per year per state exist for physicians committing to practice in an underserved area. Also, the government should encourage more of our best and brightest to go into health care fields for the good of all in the community. |
