See on Scoop.it – Individual Centric Healthcare
2012 Panel on Clinical Effectiveness Research. Great quotes by Reed Tuckson, United Health Group.
"The only place that you can go anymore to get another dime (for healthcare) is on the consumer. …. The consumer is the only place you can cost shift to."
…. "Dissemination (of information) is not the problem. There are huge amounts of information with a plethora of ways to get it out. The rate limiting step is how do we educate people to make choices in an era of uncertainty. Especially in a genomics where the answers are not clear cut, but probabilistic."
See on www.academyhealth.org
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I focus my efforts on ways to identify, integrate and mine disparate data sets to help individuals improve their own health. Today most healthcare analysis is provider, facility, or geography centric and focuses on overall performance or practice/facility/unit variation in care. All are worthy topics, however, few seem to be focused on the individual. Can the same data sets be utilized to build an interpretative analysis engine that would recommend small behavior changes to individuals which would yield leveraged health benefits? Can we mine the currently available healthcare data to help individuals answer, "What are the small changes that I can make in my life that will have the largest impact on my overall health?" …Read More
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