The rise of sick care

The problem may lie in our emphasis on managing sickness (at the expense of wellness). HHI recently presented at the GoldLab Symposium. A fellow presenter was David Lawrence, former CEO of Kaiser Permanente. Here David described the current sick-care system:

• 80,000 deaths per year from preventable errors in hospitals
• 1 sigma reliability
• >200+% variation in medical practice from community to community
• significant health disparities by class and ethnicity
• crumbling primary care system

In short, we have done a good job building a sick care system at the expense of virtually all other aspects:

The opportunity is to move toward a more balanced healthcare system. But how?

Thanks to David M. Lawrence for these images