Steve Downs - Project healthdesign and health care today
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So, what this meeting really drives home for me is how, because this is part of RWJF’s
Pioneer portfolio it’s a, Project HealthDesign is a very, sort of, forward-thinking, almost
kind of on-the-fringe sort of activity, where we’re looking at a set of brand-new technologies
in some cases and patient and clinician behaviors that are definitely not normal, or commonplace
at this point – really, sort of, as I said, on the fringe. And yet, at the same time,
what we think about in terms of all the issues of how do you actually integrate this into
practice. We run into all the fundamental health care issues of our time, about how
busy clinicians are, about how we have a system that’s very focused on acute episodes of
care as opposed to continuous/chronic care, and about how cost is such a driver. As we
go through each project and talk about the effect it might have on the system, the challenges
it has to working, and also the potential that it brings, we run into all of those basic
issues. So while on the one end, it seems like kind of an "out there" sort of project,
on the other end very fundamental to how we think about health and health care going forward.
