Prevention is as important as treatment. To learn this, we pair our medical students with members of our community, and they follow these individuals and families for three or four years of medical school. We empower the students to intervene so they can see, firsthand, why prevention is so important.
Robert C. Garrett Chief Executive Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
By focusing on the whole person, we can start to understand the root cause of the problems with the U.S. health care delivery system. These may be social issues or mental health issues. By focusing on these, we can understand how to not only improve the health status of anyone who uses a health delivery system, but also lower the cost of care and provide the right care at the right time in the right place.
Allen J. Karp Executive Vice President, Healthcare Management and Transformation, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
MIND, BODY & SOUL Part IV: Innovative Models and Technologies to Reduce Health Disparities
Behavior change is what the next era of health care is going to be all about. But you can only do that if you start with the consumer or the patient — the person who is going to be most impacted by a change in behavior. Until now, the health care industry has largely been a sickcare industry. If we can pivot towards preventative care, if we can begin to get people to focus on what can they do to improve their health and wellness now, we will improve human health globally.
John Sculley Managing Partner, Sculley Advisors
Please join Sanjay Gupta and me at LIFE ITSELF (www.LifeItself.Health )—our new, in-person health conference this September, in partnership with CNN. We aim to foster new ideas, while celebrating a diverse group of leaders intersecting health and medicine.
Marc Hodosh Founder and Co-Host, “LIFE ITSELF”
In the past, doctors were taught to treat patients without considering the cost. Now, the primary mandate of medicine, both clinically and financially, is to figure out how to make health care more efficient so that we reduce waste and allow more resources to impact more people.
Jonathan J. Bush, Jr. Executive Chairman, Firefly Health
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