MedCity News: The Collaborative Revolution - d.health Aging Americans Summit 2018
MedCity News article, "The Collaborative Revolution: d.health Aging Americans Summit 2018," describes the upcoming fourth annual d.health Summit, Beyond Healthcare to Successful Aging: America’s Next Revolution.
The June 6th Summit will bring together a diverse range of health and technology leaders, entrepreneurs, financiers, advocates and policymakers.
The article discusses age-friendly health systems in Boston and making the business case. As Kedar Mate points out, "Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is creating mechanisms for older adults to both use the subway and door-to-door paratransit services. Those things set a baseline for how to become age-friendly.” And they’re happening in “a real bastion of healthcare science,” John A. Hartford Foundation President Terry Fulmer notes, a city blessed with “an array of extraordinary health centers and world-class scientists.” An environment where “people bump into each other all day long and just come together. They know one another because it’s a tight-knit community and they are really inclined to collaborate across sectors and universities.”
“Business is a very integral part of the interdisciplinary team,” Fulmer says. “We want value-based care, and without Wall Street, sometimes you can’t even get started. We’re working very hard on the business case.”
To read the article, click here.
To learn more about the d.health Summit, click here.
To register for the Boston d.health Summit, organized by The University of Rochester and sponsored by our partner West Health, click here.