September 2021 | Volume 2
MOVING INTELLIGENT CHANGE FORWARD
INNOVATION DIGEST
There are two essential elements for delivering meaningful, equitable and successful health care: 1) measure what matters to patients, families and caregivers and 2) measure those factors in ways that are relevant to their experience. Doing so will change the drivers that define outcomes, innovation, value, equity — all the brass rings. And changing those will fundamentally change what we pay for. It all starts with the patient.
Patient Safety Is Heading in the Wrong Direction
At the age of 15, my son, Lewis, died due to treatable surgical complications. Following a routine elective surgery, he developed signs of sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection. Like most patients in postsurgical distress, Lewis deteriorated slowly. As he became weaker and weaker over the course of many hours, his bedside caregivers downplayed the significance of his mounting pain and unstable vital signs.
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Measuring What Matters: Learnings from the Person-Driven Outcomes Project
William Osler, the father of modern medicine once said “The good physician treats the disease. The great physician treats the person who has the disease.” Although physicians, nurses and other clinicians intuitively know this, the way we measure quality in health care almost always leads to a focus on the condition or injury.
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Disrupting Health Care from the Inside: How Incumbents Can Lead Change
Outsider attempts to reinvent health care have done little to move the needle despite billions invested in promising concepts like Microsoft’s HealthVault, IBM’s Watson Health, Theranos, Google’s Contact Lens, Drugstore.com, and more recently Helix and Haven.
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U.S. health care costs a lot, and not just in money
Health spending in the United States is highest in the world, driven in part by administrative complexity. To date, studies examining the administrative costs of American health care have primarily focused on clinicians and organizations—rarely on patients.
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Can America's Fastest Supercomputer Defeat Covid for Good?
Marti Head, Ph.D., had a bad feeling. It was mid-February of 2020. She’d just returned to her home in Tennessee from a work trip. Somewhere, probably in an airport, she’d picked up what she thought was just a cold.
Sure, physically she felt crappy. But the bad feeling, which she described as “itchy,” came from the news coming out of China.
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Passion + Quality = Change That Matters
  
I embrace the powerful opportunities in our evolving health care landscape. I founded Momentum Health Strategies to be a catalyst for change through continuous learning, diverse engagement and thoughtful policy and practice initiatives. I deliver innovative, strategic thinking and a passion for improving the patient experience. My personal drive and dedication to high-quality results will help you navigate the competitive terrain you face and convert your vision to action.

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Jennifer L Bright, MPA
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