The National Dialogue for Healthcare Innovation (NDHI) was created by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) as a way to bring together leaders from the private sector, government, academia, business, and patient organizations to build consensus on a broad spectrum of steps necessary to strengthen health system value and enable health innovation. This initiative’s care planning workgroup defined care planning principles and used diabetes as a case study for providing legislators and policymakers with evidence-based recommendations for addressing care planning. Diabetes is an important test case for comprehensive care planning because of the disease’s prevalence in the United States as well as its complexity. This complexity is compounded by the socioeconomic factors affecting patients with diabetes and the cost of care. The NDHI Diabetes Care Challenge chart illustrates the gaps diabetes patients currently face in screening, medication, care coordination, and devices.
For decades, innovation has been the hallmark of American healthcare.
