- Center on Health Equity & Access
- Clinical
- Health Care Cost
- Health Care Delivery
- Insurance
- Policy
- Technology
- Value-Based Care
Joe Flower on Rethinking the Way We Address Cancer Care Delivery
Healthcare futurist Joe Flower discusses the need to look at the bigger picture when trying to change the way we deliver cancer care.
Healthcare futurist Joe Flower discusses the need to look at the bigger picture when trying to change the way we deliver cancer care.
Transcript
During your session, you opened up with the statement “We don’t need new sights, we need new eyes." What did you mean by that in terms of changing the way cancer care is delivered?
What I meant by we do not need new sights, we need new eyes is we have a great tendency, normal human tendency, to look at the details that are right in front of us of how we deal with this new funding challenge coming from the government or how we deal with some of the particular challenges from different payers, and such. Whereas I, as you saw from the talk, what I do is I step back and look at the larger system that your particular part of healthcare is involved in. What are the big changes that are going on there, like that really tectonic shifts, underlying the entire way healthcare is organized and financed? And when we look at that, we can see why we are facing such big questions in community cancer care.
The Importance of Examining and Preventing Atrial Fibrillation
August 29th 2023At this year’s American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention, Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, delivered the Honorary Fellow Award Lecture, “The Imperative to Focus on the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation,” as the recipient of this year’s Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology award.
Listen
Promoting Equity in Public Health: Policy, Investment, and Community Engagement Solutions
June 28th 2022On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association, on the core takeaways of his keynote session at AHIP 2022 on public health policy and other solutions to promote equitable health and well-being.
Listen
