Modern Healthcare May 22, 2018
Though digital tools are important, they alone won’t solve healthcare problems that disproportionately affect people Medicare and Medicaid, said Andy Slavitt, head of Town Hall Ventures, at the Avia Network Summit in Chicago. Instead, he suggested, it will take nothing short of “transformation” to correct health disparities.
Slavitt and Avia are teaming up on the Medicaid Transformation Project, an initiative they provided few details on, to “transform care over an extended period of time” for Medicaid beneficiaries, said Avia president Linda Finkel. Along with anchors Geisinger Health System, Providence Health and Services and Dignity Health, they will work on “identifying, developing and scaling replicable, sustainable, health system-led innovations on behalf of these populations,” she said.
“We dramatically underinvest in innovation...