Nine Strategies for Transforming Health & Healthcare

A 21st Century Individual-Centered Intelligent Health System Now! The Center for Health Transformation is a high?impact collaboration of private and public sector leaders dedicated to creating a 21st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and saves money for all Americans. The Center is based on the following premise: Small changes or reactionary fixes to separate pieces of the current system have not and will not work. We need a system?wide transformation. Unlike other alliances, the Center unites stakeholders across the spectrum (providers, employers, vendors, trade associations, disease groups, think tanks and government leaders at both the state and federal level) to drive transformation according to a shared vision and key principles. Our nine key strategies are:

Accelerate the Adoption of Interoperable Electronic Health Records

Create secure, interoperable electronic health records with expert systems to maximize accuracy, minimize errors, reduce inefficiencies and improve care.

Create a System and Culture of Rapid Adoption of Solutions

Create a system and culture of rapid adoption of solutions that result in better outcomes at lower cost for Medicaid, Medicare, and the private sector.

Support Information?rich Health Savings Accounts

Accelerate the adoption of information?rich health savings accounts to both incentivize and empower the individual.

Develop a New System of Health Justice and Patient Safety

Create a new system of health justice and patient safety, focusing on a much fairer, less expensive and more timely system of health justice. The current system of civil health litigation is too expensive and fails to provide justice for patients and their families.

Create a Buyers’ Market for Pharmaceuticals

Create a buyers’ market for pharmaceuticals by building a transparent system for individuals, doctors, and pharmacists of price and efficacy information about prescription drugs and medically appropriate over?the?counter drugs. The system would have an open formulary with an “after?pay” rather than a co?pay (a “Travelocity” for drug purchasing).

Establish a System for Capturing the Cost and Benefits of Better Solutions

Establish an intellectually credible, accurate system for capturing the cost and benefits of better solutions, better technologies and better outcomes in order to create a technically correct model of return on investment for solutions resulting in better outcomes at lower cost.

Create a Real?time Continuous Research Database

Develop a real?time continuous research database that advances the discovery, development, and delivery of research (turning cancer into a chronic disease by 2015 and eliminating preventable complications from diabetes by 2015).

Create a Virtual Public Health Network

Knit together these electronic systems into a virtual public health network for health protection against natural outbreaks and a bioshield against deliberate biological attack.

Turn Health & Healthcare from a Problem into an Opportunity

By implementing the first eight strategies, turn health and healthcare from a problem into an opportunity, making it the leading creator of high?value jobs and foreign exchange earning in American society (including as a first step the creation of an undersecretary of commerce for health)

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