On May 3, 2010, Hope Street Group convened our Bipartisan Working Group of business, political and civic sector leaders to address the urgent need to reinvent primary care. The Working Group looked at opportunities to maximize innovation in addressing resource shortages and acute, preventative, and chronic care delivery.
Once again, Hope Street Group leveraged the tremendous expertise and knowledge base of our community of advisors. Participating in the discussions on the night were:
Byron Auguste | Director, McKinsey & Company
Dr. Sree Chaguturu | Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Manager, McKinsey & Company
Aaron Doty | Health Care Advisor, Hope Street Group
Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA | Executive Director ,The John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Paul Grundy, MPH | IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation; President, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Dr. Jeff Harris | Former President, American College of Physicians
Dr. Matthew Hunsaker | Director, RMED, National Center for Rural Health Professions, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Rockford
David Javdan | Manager Director, Alvarez & Marsal, LLC;
Dr. Bob Kocher | Special Assistant to the President, National Economic Council
Peter Lee | Executive Director, National Health Policy Pacific Business Group on Health
Monique Nadeau | Executive Director, Hope Street Group
John Podesta | CEO, Center for American Progress
Diane Rowland, ScD | Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Chair, MACPAC
Andy Slavitt | CEO, Ingenix
Simon Stevens | Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group
Dr. Kate Tulenko | Deputy Director, CapacityPlus (USAID)
David Walker | President and CEO, Peter Peterson Foundation
Dr. Steven Weinberger, FACP | Deputy Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President for Medical Education & Publishing American College of Physicians
Participants considered the impact of the lack of a coordinated market in primary care, and the impediments to take up of innovation. They discussed the way in which geographic distribution and variation in the distribution of types of practitioners exacerbates the impact of workforce shortage in primary care. They also looked at how other players in the complex health care market may react when changes to primary care begin to take effect. Participants agreed that it was important to address the barriers to the spread of innovation (including drawing on the experiences of other countries), rather than duplicating the efforts of existing innovation leaders.
You can view a copy of the full Executive Summary here.
