Meeting with Lynn Etheridge – Rapid Learning Health Systems

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

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