The virtue of seeing a doctor who knows you is, if you come in and say, 'I have a headache,' he or she knows whether you always have headaches or if this is an earth-shattering event because you haven't had a headache in 40 years.
From an existing customer perspective, we're trying to retain them, and for the folks who are not customers, we'd love them to become customers.
We're trying to fit a new healthcare paradigm into an old payment system. It won't be pretty and it won't be easy, but we can do it if we do it together.
The fact that we know it exists prompts a lot of local communities to say, 'What's going on here?' and to figure out also why it matters.
The public and private sectors are increasingly pursuing complementary strategies to advance system performance. Janet is the exact right person to help accelerate and focus this positive and critically important direction.
We've got terrific measurements information in some areas, but in other areas we don't have good measurements at all.
The findings show that we have a lot to learn from our colleagues
The findings here reinforce how difficult it is coordinating care. . . . That's the next frontier.
We're very excited that we'll be learning from these plans as they go, and we'll learn what works under various circumstances,
We're trying to give people the information they need to decide their approach; we're not telling them what to do, we're not being prescriptive.
