2014 Innovation Forum

March 18, 2014

The Health Care Innovation Imperative

Atlas Research recently hosted the first installment of its Innovation Forum series, entitled The Health Care Innovation Imperative, featuring thought leaders representing academia, industry, health care systems, and technology to share perspectives on the current push to innovate in health care.

The wide-ranging conversation included discussions about the change sweeping through our health care system and fundamentally reshaping care delivery models, the way information is shared and leveraged among the community of payers and providers, the extent of consumer engagement in their own care, the use of technology and technology supports to deliver value, and the role of prevention and public health in our health system. 

One theme that threaded throughout the conversation is that of patient-centeredness as a driver in innovation. “The patient will tell you the diagnosis eighty-five percent of the time, if you listen,” said Skip Williams, who described a program at his New York Medical Center that is reducing rates of congestive heart failure and was originally developed in rural Kenya.

Watch the videos to hear from more experts in industry, academia, and nonprofits who profile promising innovations in mobile health and informatics, health management education, and global partnership models for prevention and public health. 

This event was hosted in New Orleans by Atlas Research in partnership with the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Association of Public Health Physicians, and Georgetown University


Perspectives on Innovation

Nicholas Donfrio, IBM, ponders what it is about health care that makes innovation challenging.

John 'Skip' Williams, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, describes innovation at his medical center.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, The George Washington University, on innovation in academia.

Robert Carr, GlaxoSmithKline, explains why health care can be frustrating in terms of innovation.

Sam Shekar, Northrop Grumman, on mobile health and public health analytics.

H. Morgan Crafts, Northrop Grumman, on mobile health and public health analytics.

Gary Filerman, Atlas Health Foundation, shares lessons from the Institute of Medicine.

Ronald Joines, GlaxoSmithKline, on partnership for prevention.

Randall Carter, Planetree, describes innovations in patient-centered care.

This event was moderated by Mark Chichester, President of Atlas Research and Jason Ormsby, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, and Senior Vice President, Atlas Research.