July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012
Healthspital 4.0: Re-Visioning the American Community Health-Care Experience
Frank W. Maletz is a practicing orthopedic surgeon who developed this model after 33 years in American medicine and active patient care—25 of those years in community based practice, East Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
Thomas Kuhn taught that an anomaly is needed to engender a paradigm shift. Medical/surgical treatment costs are unsustainable and, therefore, represent that anomalous predicament currently. Superlative outcomes are not consistently delivered for the money expended. There is no system for true health-care delivery. This session will expand on The Futurist article and explore five major drivers of ineffectiveness in the now non-system:
- Appropriate levels and providers of care-entry and use.
- End-of-life care and dignity.
- Complex care and multiple and chronic conditions: integrate and coordinate.
- Wasteful, fraudulent, redundant, duplicative care with rework and variation.
- Preventive, alternative, maintenance strategies to maximize health, wellness, well-being, and flourishing.
This interactive session will then encourage attendees to critique and improve upon the ideas.
Highlights
Participants will leave the session with an understanding of:
- The social, financial, educational, political, psychological, and traditional barriers to development and implementation.
- The next steps to prototype and create proof-of-concept.
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