Yesterday, I attended two educational sessions at the
Governance Institute's annual meeting for CEOs and Board
Members. For the most part, the sessions were extremely
informative. However, there was a major point of disagreement based
on the information shared in one of the sessions.
One of the presenters said that the health care reform
initiatives will not take hold in the US until 2025. He feels that
way based of the following: the overall learning curve is too steep for all
stakeholders; there is a lot depending on the successful implementation of
clinical information systems; the newly implemented insurance exchanges will
take much longer to come on line due to their many current challenges; the amount
of primary care restructuring that is necessary; the influx of millions of new
patients; the lack of funding for the transition and less willingness on the
part of patients to pay out of pocket for their care.
Really? I will say that it takes a lot to change
how hospitals do business in shifting from volume to value since we lived
it. The presenter's points are well taken, but twelve years to make
the change? The majority within WMHS has gotten it and I recognize
such change did take several years. It does take a great deal to
change, especially in the community outside of the hospital, as we move away
from the traditional health care model. But, again, twelve years is
a quite a long time especially, since we don't have that kind of time with the
cost of health care at $2.7 trillion dollars on an annual basis and increasing
each year.
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