Committee. At 2 p. M. , hear testimony from sean edgette of twitter and kent andwalker, general counsel for google. Watch them live, online or listen live on the free cspan radio app. A panel of healthcare policy officials shared their views on lowering costs while trying to maintain quality. Topics included changes in payment models and transitioning from a fee for service to a valuebased reimbursement system. This was hosted foundation. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chalkly. Im delighted to welcome you here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their concern for what rising healthcare costs do to americans. And the need to increase value in our Healthcare System. So each of them will present their own ideas of how to increase value or how they are increasing value in the Healthcare System. A nonprofit nonpartisan organiza
York. We operate in buffalo. Western new york is an area that has actually had some shrinkage in population over the past decade. Population is ageing a little bit. So those are factors in the effort that we have made to transform the population. This is where were located. Ill talk about specifically about western new york. Although we will begin to roll out similar processes in other locations as well. This is the region that we focus on. Its an eight county service area. As i mention it has static population trends. Two major hospitals systems. In that area. And controlling about 80 of in patient care. And theres one distinct cancer specialty hospital. Roz well park is in the area as well. Fairly typical of legacy territories that are hospital driven. They are very doctor centric. Not patient centric. And as we have evolved into more of a patient centric and consumer oriented segment in healthcare we we have a need to flip that around. We looked at the area and said how can we begin
Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group is taken from the aspen Strategy Group for those who are familiar with American Foreign policy. Probably know about the group, its undoubtedly the leading Bipartisan Group of its kind looking at Critical Issues of Foreign Policy and we established the group with that in mind, to bring together remarkable people from across different sectors in the American Health and medical landscape to look at the most pressing problems and come together with different perspectives to make recommendations for
Health care, decreased wait times and modernize the va i. T. System. Good morning here today were pleased to welcome back our good friend dr. David shulkin, the new secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs. The last time you appeared before our committee you were v under sector for health. Now youve been kicked upstairsp after a Unanimous Senate confirmation vote, we become unanimous and that says a lot in this political environment so congratulations. We come with your background i know you a great background inph philadelphia. I just learned you certainly bring a lot of experience to the job. Although im sure these days the challenges are very daunting for you. We realize this ring is a bit unusual. Ua rather than a typical budgeting where you have at this time of year we are limited tod discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget mentors that omb sent to the hill in march. The two page entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities or plan
Second in 2017 Foundation Series on science in the society. The first lecture this year on the brain and video games was held in march and the third in september will be on meditation so please keep an eye out for the announcement date. The foundation is a Philanthropic Organization that supports Brain Research programs, publications and Educational Programs like this one. For the last five years, weve partnered with the foundation to present an annual lecture series on society and by my count this as the lecture in a series. We are grateful for the Dana Foundation support of the series and for the leadership in the series and our scientific responsibility human rights and law program. Thank you. Welcome. It seems to me hardly a day goes by there isnt a story i see either in a newspaper or o the n the evening news about the Opioid Crisis. And as i was thinking about that today, sure enough on the front page of the Washington Post is a story abouhas a story about he governors of marylan