Health Solutions Lab

Values   Vision   Metrics    

The Center for Health Transformation is pleased to launch our new Health Solution Laboratory. The purpose of the CHT Solutions Lab is to collaborate with civic, industry and government leaders, as well as citizens across the country, to learn and exchange models, solutions and ideas that not only improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, organizations and communities but also create a 21^st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and saves money for every American.  

Values

We believe that every American should be as healthy as possible for as long as possible at the lowest possible cost, within a system of quality, innovation and evidence based practices.

We believe in the 21st century pattern of more choices of higher quality at lower cost.

We further believe that a collaboration of leaders is necessary to constantly create new 21st century solutions and policies that result in more choices of higher quality at lower cost. The collaboration should include all stakeholders, to maximize the ability to learn, create and accelerate the adoption of new solutions and policies.

We believe in the importance of having a critical mass of leaders at all levels and across all stakeholder groups. This will also involve every individual playing a leadership role with regard to their own health and their family’s health, as well as within their workforce, their organization, their community and America at large.

We believe that creating a movement of citizen leaders, including organizational, government, and industry leaders, is key to transforming the system and accelerating the adoption of 21st century solutions and policies.

We believe that health should be individual-centered with the individual having the incentives, information and access to care that save lives, which we believe will also save money.

We believe in a market-mediated system, where the American system of entrepreneurialism and innovation is protected and incentivized.

We believe that every individual has the right to own their own health record, to know they are receiving best evidence-based care, to live as independently and with as much freedom and as many choices as possible and to know that they are safe from preventable medical errors.

In addition to these rights, we believe the individual has the responsibility to make healthy choices, to access available information in order to determine best possible solutions and to partner with their physician or healthcare provider to make decisions that lead to better health for them and their family.

We believe in a personalized health system, built around each person’s individual health needs and status, which allows every individual to have access to the treatments and solutions that are best for their personal profile and make-up.

We believe the system should be based on health, not just healthcare. This means a focus on prevention, early testing, and evidence-based best [or better, since it will constantly evolve] standards of care to manage health.

We believe in an intelligent system, meaning that the system is electronic versus paper-based, is IT-rich and functions as an inter-connected, interoperable system.

We believe in a systems approach, rather than a siloed approach, meaning that all parts of the system need to work together toward a common vision and common goal. That goal is first and foremost dedicated to saving lives and improving quality of life and secondly focused on saving money, the two of which we believe, in a 21st century system, are inter-related and inter-dependent.

We also believe that, since changes to one part of the system impact other parts of the system, we must therefore consider the long-term impact on the system rather than focusing on short-term solutions. This approach should govern both clinical and financial decisions that are made, which will require a change in the way government evaluates the way it spends money on projects and programs.

We believe the system should be focused on outcomes and specific metrics, and that we should not only measure metrics but we should also manage according to those metrics.

We believe in the art of transformation. We believe in constant innovation and in training and empowering every organization and individual to continually improve and strive for a better future.

We also believe that our government should be a collaborative partner, setting standards but not engaging in micromanaging processes or the free enterprise system.

Finally, we believe in a system that creates better health and more choices at lower cost for every American, regardless of age, sex, ethnic or geographic background, or level of disability.

These values are reflected in our vision, our metrics, our strategies, our projects and the habits we practice every day.

Vision

A collaboration of leaders dedicated to the creation of an intelligent health system that saves lives and saves money for every American.

Our Vision Principles >>

Metrics

Our long-term metrics include the following:

• Elimination of cancer as a cause of death;
• A cure for Alzheimer’s;
• Prevention of all medical errors;
• Decrease in costs associated with waste and fraud;
• Decrease in overall cost of the system, within the context of overall improvement in health outcomes;
• Every American has an individual electronic health record that they own;
• Every American has access to an information-rich health savings account;
• Elimination of all preventable diabetes;
• Elimination of blindness, amputations and renal disease as a result of diabetes;
• Decline in incidence of obesity;
• Increase in percentage of healthy babies, including healthy birth weight babies;
• Shortest possible time from discovery to delivery of cures and breakthroughs;
• Prevention of all preventable disabilities and maximum independence and freedom for those with disabilities;
• Every American has access to information about cost and quality of various hospitals, physicians and therapies;
• All Americans have affordable health coverage and access;
• Steady increase in years of quality life for all Americans.