Alternative Models of Care Delivery - Saying Goodbye Through The Internet

Dr. Ron Dixon had a patient and one day Ron diagnosed that patient with lung cancer. As time went on and the disease progressed the only way Ron could communicate with his patient was through Skype remotely. It was through Skype that Ron reviewed the patients final test results. It was through Skype that Ron told the patient it wasn't good. It was through Skype that Ron last spoke with his patient.

This forum isn’t about Skype or any one technology, but all of the possibilities that exists for how we can think different about healthcare and what the impact is. Dr. Ron Dixon heads this weeks forum update.

This CIMIT Forum will explore novel and emerging methods of healthcare delivery, with a focus on primary health care. We'll address the controversial yet inevitable appearance of retail-based clinics on the Massachusetts healthcare space and discuss their potential impact from an AHC perspective. We will also explore recent entrepreneurial developments in the healthcare delivery arena, such as American Well: http://www.americanwell.com.

Moderator: Ronald Dixon, MD, MA, Associate Director Beacon Hill Associates; Project Director, MGPO; CIMIT Program Leader, Value-Based Models of Healthcare, rdixon@partners.org 

Retail Clinics -The View from an Academic Integrated Delivery System
Peter Markell, Vice President, Finance, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., pkmarkell@partners.org

Peter Markell will focus on an overview of the development of retail clinics and how PHS is evaluating the pro’s and con’s of including retail clinics in its delivery system.

Increasing Health Care Value via Technology: Enabled Simplification
Ahmed Albaiti, CEO, Medullan, Inc.,ahmed@medullan.com

How is value defined in health care? A question that is (or should be) top of mind of any serious reform activity within the health care space. Ahmed Albaiti will discuss the value of health care and how it can be improved significantly by placing the emphasis on patient-centric, differentiated services, that are measurable on the level of specific conditions and across the full cycle of care. Current industry examples will be cited in detail to paint an early look of what the healthcare ecosystem might look like in the future.

In particular, technology will be explored as a powerful enabler of shifting the delivery of care:
- from focusing innovation on the most complicated cases to fostering disruptive innovation for the most common cases
- from creating information transparency of health plan coverage to creating information transparency of provider quality and cost
- from building traditional facilities that pursue treatment of all conditions to empowering distinctive facilities that present unique models of excellence
- from managing constricted workflows dependent on physician expertise to integrating stratified workflows enabled by clinical teams of varying expertise

Additional panelists include:
Allan Goroll, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, MGH, ahgoroll@partners.org
David F. Torchiana, MD, Chairman and CEO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), dtorchiana@partners.org