Health policy analysts, physicians, pharmaceutical company executives, business leaders and government officials recently met in Washington at the CMPI-Duke University Patient-Centric Leadership Forum to discuss developments in this exciting field.
Previously we have shared some of the comments made by noted cardiologist Dr. Michael Weber (“Weber Grillsâ€):
http://drugwonks.com/2008/02/weber_grills.html
and Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University and former Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University, President and CEO of Duke University Health System and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine (“The Greening of the American Health Care Systemâ€):
http://drugwonks.com/2008/03/the_greening_of_the_american_health_care_system.html
Today we are, as always, honored to share some of the comments offered by the hardest working man in American health care, Dr. Mark McClellan.
“We’ve got a healthcare delivery system that is organized the wrong way. It provides the wrong services with the wrong emphasis to get to personalized, predictive, preventative care. You can trace this back to the fact that reimbursement is wrong. We have payment incentives that encourage more intensity, especially after a health problem has developed and don’t have any real accountability for getting better results for patients’ health at the lowest overall cost. We have systems of choice in our healthcare system that don’t really give people a choice, where the policies, the coverage that you can get, is influenced by many factors beyond an individual’s preference.
There is a lot of potential for more targeted therapies, more prevention-oriented treatment strategies, more individualized predictive medicine. This is why I’m fundamentally optimistic about the future of our healthcare policies. As there is so much potential on the side of personalized, predictive patient-centric care, the discoveries are going to happen.
The question is simply how fast, and how quickly are we going to get to really irresistible pressure for the kinds of reforms that will close the gap between what we could do with the right reimbursement rules and the right ability for patients to choose their care?"
Yes, that is the question.
Full conference remarks will be available shortly. Watch this space for more details.
Previously we have shared some of the comments made by noted cardiologist Dr. Michael Weber (“Weber Grillsâ€):
http://drugwonks.com/2008/02/weber_grills.html
and Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University and former Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University, President and CEO of Duke University Health System and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine (“The Greening of the American Health Care Systemâ€):
http://drugwonks.com/2008/03/the_greening_of_the_american_health_care_system.html
Today we are, as always, honored to share some of the comments offered by the hardest working man in American health care, Dr. Mark McClellan.
“We’ve got a healthcare delivery system that is organized the wrong way. It provides the wrong services with the wrong emphasis to get to personalized, predictive, preventative care. You can trace this back to the fact that reimbursement is wrong. We have payment incentives that encourage more intensity, especially after a health problem has developed and don’t have any real accountability for getting better results for patients’ health at the lowest overall cost. We have systems of choice in our healthcare system that don’t really give people a choice, where the policies, the coverage that you can get, is influenced by many factors beyond an individual’s preference.
There is a lot of potential for more targeted therapies, more prevention-oriented treatment strategies, more individualized predictive medicine. This is why I’m fundamentally optimistic about the future of our healthcare policies. As there is so much potential on the side of personalized, predictive patient-centric care, the discoveries are going to happen.
The question is simply how fast, and how quickly are we going to get to really irresistible pressure for the kinds of reforms that will close the gap between what we could do with the right reimbursement rules and the right ability for patients to choose their care?"
Yes, that is the question.
Full conference remarks will be available shortly. Watch this space for more details.
