Atul Gawande addresses ACO formation

The following link is to a lengthy presentation by surgeon and author Atul Gawande which is well worth watching. You may want to skip over the first seven minutes or so which includes the introduction of Dr. Gwande to the audience at Cleveland Clinic.

One hour and one minute into the presentation he responds to a question from the audience regarding the future of healthcare delivery in the United States and says that, in his opinion, the prospect of who is going to lead the way forward is being battled now among three kinds of players. They are the insurers, the physician groups and the hospitals. He believes that it is the physician groups that are most likely to lead in making the changes necessary to address our nation's healthcare needs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSWQtOjsiXo

Begin at the one hour mark. Atul Gawande addresses the question of who will lead the way forward and survive in the new policy and market realities.

This post was edited on August 29, 2012.

Transforming sickness care to health care

Rebecca Onie at TEDMED 2012 made the case that college and university students can become organized to make a very significant difference helping link patients with community resources. She concluded saying, "I believe that we all have a vision for health care in this country. I believe that at the end of the day when we measure our health care it will not be by the diseases cured but by the diseases prevented. It will not be by the excellence of our technologies or the sophistication of our specialists but by how rarely we needed them. And most of all, I believe that when we measure health care it will not be by what the system was but by what we chose it to be."

http://www.tedmed.com/videos-info?name=Rebecca_Onie_at_TEDMED_2012&q=updated&year=all

Using multimedia in personalized health education

In the following TEDMED video Alexander Tsiaras, Founder of The Visual MD, discusses and demonstrates how multimedia can be used to make a patient's lab report come alive to the patient in ways that plain text cannot.

Translational research and wireless technologies

Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute at TEDMED 2009 offered a compelling vision of the convergence of medical practice and mobile technologies. Dr. Ricardo Azziz, President of Georgia Health Sciences University and CEO of Georgia Health Sciences Health System, recently shared his vision of clinical and translational research. These are surely exciting times as we may be approaching some kind of medical-technological singularity beyond which the future will become difficult to predict.

http://azziz.georgiahealth.edu/archives/367