Texas Health CEO: Local Collaborations Provide Most Effective Health Reform

(In an op-ed in the Dallas/Fort Worth Healthcare Daily, Texas Health Resources CEO Doug Hawthorne writes about collaborations at the local level among health systems, physicians, employers and payers to improve healthcare quality, cost effectiveness and patient outcomes.  He cites examples – including some involving fellow Healthcare Leadership Council member Healthways – in which care coordination for illnesses like diabetes is taking place not just in acute care settings but also outside the hospital, in homes and communities.  The op-ed can be found below and  here.)

It is too soon to know what changes, if any, might be made to the Affordable Care Act as a result of the recent elections and the upcoming debates over taxes, spending cuts and sequestration. What we do know is that the most effective healthcare reform will happen through collaboration at the local level among health systems, physicians, employers, and payers.
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