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Join us on 20th September for the Institute of Global Health Innovation‘s Annual Lecture.
We are delighted that this year’s keynote speaker is Dr David Blumenthal, President of the Commonwealth Fund
Dr Blumenthal will draw on his experience in health policy and reform to talk about his views on ‘Managing High Need, High Cost Patients: a Universal Challenge’.
Talk outline
In all countries, a small fraction of the population accounts for the lion’s share of health care spending. These high need, high cost patients typically have multiple chronic conditions, often compounded by disabilities or social vulnerability. Improving how we manage these patients presents an opportunity to significantly advance the effectiveness and financial sustainability of our health care systems, as well as the health of our populations. Doing so, however, will require a better understanding of who these patients are, and reorganising our delivery systems to meet their distinct needs – including, in many cases, their nonmedical needs. New payment methods will also need to be developed, tested, and deployed that reward coordinated, integrated care. As countries undertake these reforms, we have a great deal to learn from each other, as the universal challenge of caring for high need, high cost patients transcends the differences between our health care systems.
Speaker bio
David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues.
Dr. Blumenthal is formerly the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, with the charge to build an interoperable, private, and secure nationwide health information system and to support the widespread, meaningful use of health IT. He succeeded in putting in place one of the largest publicly funded infrastructure investments the nation has ever made in such a short time period, in health care or any other field.
Previously, Dr. Blumenthal was a practicing primary care physician, director of the Institute for Health Policy, and professor of medicine and health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of more than 250 books and scholarly publications, including most recently, Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. He has also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research; is the founding chairman of AcademyHealth, the national organization of health services researchers; and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Dr. Blumenthal received his undergraduate, medical, and public policy degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. With his colleagues from Harvard Medical School, he authored the seminal studies on the adoption and use of health information technology in the United States. He has held several leadership positions in medicine, government, and academia, including senior vice president at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and executive director of the Center for Health Policy and Management and lecturer on public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He served previously on the board of the University of Chicago Health System and is recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rush University and an Honorary Doctor of Science from Claremont Graduate University and the State University of New York Downstate.
Venue
The Lecture will take place on Tuesday 20th September at 18:00 and will be held in the Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, SW7 2AZ (no 13 on this Map).
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