Met with Lynn over lunch at RIS (tomato cream soup, salmon) on the back of his with with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the establishment of a rapid learning health system.
US Secretary of Health Burwell is moving payments to:
- 35% alternate (non-FFS) payments
- 80% of FFS will now be performance based
- $10B innovation center
There are financiers looking to establish markets for healthcare futures
US is establishing a clinical research system that links NIH, FDA and POCARI databases covering 50 million patients.
Lee Hood at University of Washington is driving ideas around zero stage disease and prediction >> feeding into P4 Medicine Group
Flatiron Health are building a unified cancer EMR
End goal is to have 100% of patients involved in a clinical trial – this is the essence of a rapid learning health system