Health Care

Why Primary Care?

Primary care  gives us the best vantage point to impact the health system as a whole. For many, primary care is often the first and most frequent point of patient contact. By deconstructing primary care into its components—wellness, prevention (primary and secondary), triage, navigation, chronic disease management, we can innovate appropriately within each of these domains.

By changing both the nature of demand for health care services and how the supply from health care providers responds to that demand---this shift has the potential to drive system-wide change and fundamentally improve cost and quality.

Deeply concerned with these trends and the direction and tone of our public policy discussions, Hope Street Group launched the Policy 2.0: Using Open Innovation to Reinvent Primary Care project.

Policy 2.0: Using Open Innovation to Reinvent Primary Care

Project Overview

Good health enables Americans to live longer, lead more active lives and improve their economic potential.

Hope Street Group brought together over 100 leading clinicians, policymakers, elected officials, health services researchers, economists, business professionals and entrepreneurs, insurance industry representatives, and health care leaders to build consensus on recommendations to improve the primary care system.

Using the Policy 2.0 Web platform, participants engaged in dynamic conversations about case studies, crafted “policy pearls”—all of which contributed to our final recommendations and white paper.

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