Can Healthcare Delivery Be Transformed?
Today we launch an exciting and daunting endeavor: The Collaborative Forum. The Forum, while organized by Pharos Innovations, is intended to be a broad ranging, and hopefully, an impactful and enduring discussion of the most compelling challenge facing American Healthcare. No, not increasing healthcare coverage…that seems relatively easy. No, not restructuring payment to incent value…that, too seems relatively easy.
Our goal is something far more complex, and one that cannot be accomplished without Collaboration…to see the delivery of healthcare in America truly transformed.
In the subsequent weeks and months ahead, we will tackle this complex problem in a new way. We will begin, much as a physician might, by recognizing the “illness”…defining the problem in hopefully succinct and understandable terms. Terms that even someone outside of our industry could understand.
Like a physician, we will turn our attention to then “diagnosing the problem”. Healthcare delivery is a complex system. Like the human body, abnormalities and illness are often years in the making. A true diagnostician must recognize the patterns of abnormality, and understand the underlying systems that are involved in creating and sustaining the abnormality.
But then the true challenge arises. I think we might all quickly agree on the problems of healthcare delivery, and even understand many, if not most of the underlying system abnormalities that have led us to a state of maladaptation. But “treating” a complex condition often requires a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted approach.
Hence, The Collaborative Forum. Beginning today, we launch a journey together. One that will require insights and input from many. One that will require a shared vision and leadership from several. One that will require patience and wisdom from all. Call it the wisdom of the masses meets real world solutions…You see, The Collaborative Forum seeks to represent the best and brightest of healthcare reform. By bringing together critical thinking and combining this thinking with pragmatic experience and impact, we hope to reshape healthcare. You’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase, Collaborate or die. Perhaps our call to action should instead be: “Collaborate to Create the Cure”. No easy silver bullets here, but if you are up for a real challenge, so are we.
I hope you will join us, and I invite you to be an active participant on our journey.
Tags: Healthcare reform
