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Rethinking Health Care Models: Mapping the New Landscape Workshop Presentations & Agenda

This year, Institute for the Future's Health program research is focused on new and sustaining care and business models in the post-ACA decade.  We started our research exploration by reviewing the work of Clayton Christensen.  Dr. Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on innovation and growth. Recently, Dr. Christensen has put the lens of disruptive innovation on social issues such as education and health care. Dr. Christensen has argued that “false boundaries” constrain innovation and he has challenged people to think about how universities would have to change if there were no boundary between undergraduate education and the working world. We have adopted Dr. Christensen’s work on identifying false boundaries, and applied it to health and healthcare.

When you think about the boundaries of public health and clinical health, or the boundaries that separate prevention and treatment, or even the boundaries of health information and health expertise in a larger information and expertise ecology, the divisions seem misleading and false. Theses boundaries have also created deep path dependencies, making it harder for us to see new approaches and new care models that don’t align with the current boundaries.  

We have delved into new care models that have erased or re-drawn boundaries between institution-based and community health, expert and patient, treatment and cures, and prognosis and informed decision-making.  We’ll invite you to learn about new models that reimagine the health seeking process as automation technologies take hold, and that address existing challenges around sharing health data and ensuring protection of personal health information.

 

 


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