The promise of being healthy and having access to the best health care workers in the world has historically been a fundamental part of our national identity. However, our current health care system faces gross structural and financial inadequacies that overburden medical practitioners. These inadequacies lead to large gaps in access, poor health outcomes for patients, and rapidly escalating costs.
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
By investing in primary care--the foundation of good health--we can decrease the demand for costly health services and improve health outcomes.
Despite the pivotal role primary care plays in keeping Americans healthy, our primary care infrastructure continues to deteriorate. Many Americans are unable to obtain a timely appointment due to a shortage of primary care practitioners in their local communities. An estimated 60 million Americans, or one in five, lack adequate access to primary care.
Given the complexity of these issues, there is an immediate need to find innovative and unique solutions to increasing primary care access in the short term in order to generate lower system-wide health care costs and improved quality outcomes in the long term. Hope Street Group can provide these solutions through the Policy 2.0: Using Open Innovation to Reinvent Primary Care project.
The project has already recruited over 60 participants, advisors and leaders in more than 30 states and includes entrepreneurs, practitioners, and policy makers . This diverse group is collaborating over the next eight-weeks to create recommendations to solve some of the most pressing problems plaguing the successful delivery of primary care. Participants are broken up into four teams that account for the whole primary care supply chain:
Acute Care
Chronic Care
Preventive Care
Practitioner Shortage
Each week, teams will tackle a case study and evaluate the complex barriers that exist to providing quality, cost effective primary care services. Through these vibrant online discussions, teams will shine a light on innovation around the country and develop recommendations to solve some of the most pressing problems plaguing the successful delivery of primary care. These recommendations will form a report that Hope Street Group and our advisors will disseminate and promote with policy makers in Congress and the Administration, industry thought leaders, and the larger health care reform community.
To learn more about the project, please check out our Project Facts section. To get involved please send your resume to Diana Harris and include a short paragraph on why you want to be engaged and the skills you have to offer.
How else you can help:
Loading...
