Future of Healthcare

The future of healthcare is always changing. While our government and President will always have a voice in the these changes, there are several important motivators who also impact how healthcare changes and evolves. I chose the following healthcare leaders, great thinkers or inovators because they have the education and knowledge, have already brought good changes, have been in positions to change or currently are.The following are worth watching.

Sherry Glied

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Sherry Glied is Dean and Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has an exemplary background with her work in Healthcare and her education is just as impressive. According to OBS.org, "Sherry Glied served as a Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy to the President's Council of Economic Advisors, under both President Bush and President Clinton in 1992-1993. She also was a participant in President Clinton's Health Care Task Force in 1993. She is studying the US employer-based health system, and researching ways to expand health insurance among uninsured Americans." Glied currently has many projects in the works. These include:

Housing Subsidies and Family Health

Foreclosure’s Effects on Family Health and Well-being

Awaiting Trial: The Health Effects of Pretrial Detention

Criminal Justice Reform and Health: Arrest and Prosecution for Minor Offenses

“Stop, Question, and Frisk”: The Health Effects of Police-Citizen Encounters

How Do Grade Structures Affect Healthy Child Development?

The Impacts of Universal Prekindergarten on Children’s Health

The Ups and Downs of Housing: How Rehabilitation, Foreclosure, and Gentrification Affect Health

How We Get Around: The Impact of Transportation on Health

For further information you can visit:

https://www.policiesforaction.org/person/sherry-glied

Gail Wilensky
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Gail Wilensky is a current advocate for healthcare reform. According to PBS.org, "Gail Wilensky serves as Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee, which advises Congress on all payment and expenditure issues related to Medicare. Her previous position was in the White House, serving as Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Development, where she advised President Bush on health and welfare issues. She came to the White House after serving as the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) where she directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs."

Thomas H. Murray

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Thomas H. Murray is currently serving as the President and CEO of the Hastings Center. According to PBS.org, "Thomas Murray's research interests cover a broad range of ethical issues in medicine and science. He is Chair of the National Institutes of Health Center for Human Genome Research's Task Force on Genetics and Insurance. Dr. Murray is the current President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is the former Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University." He has written many documents and books in regards to healthcare. According to Columbia University, "

Murray has testified before many Congressional committees and is the author of more than 250 publications. He is also editor, with Maxwell J. Mehlman, of the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology." Currently Murray PI of a project for the Hastings Center. It's on ethics and synthetic Biology. Why We Play is also the current title he is working on writing. (Columbia University)

Haavi Moriem

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Haavi Moriem is currently Principal for the Center for Conflict Resolution in Healthcare, LLC and a Professor at the College of Medicine, Univ. of TN. According to her linked-in, "Dr. Morreim works in the clinical rounds and conferences during which faculty and physicians-in-training discuss patients, make medical decisions, and explore broader issues—from the operating room to the E.R, from the I.C.U. to the outpatient office, and from the perspective of physicians, nurses, patients, families, and allied providers." According to PBS.org, "Haavi Morreim's research focuses on the ethical and legal implications of medicine's changing economics. She has a joint appointment as Professor in the Division of Health Services and Policy Research at the University of Tennessee. Her book, Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics, was first published in 1991."

You can find Haavi Moriem's Linked-in account here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haavi-morreim-jd-phd-4a33b974

David Eddy

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David Eddyis currently an independent writer and researcher. According to PBS.org, "David Eddy, who is widely credited with coining the term "evidence-based medicine," is the author of five books, numerous articles, and a series of essays for the Journal of the American Medical Association. He has served on many international commissions, including Consumers Union and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and is the Chief Scientist for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's TEC (Technology Evaluation and Coverage) Program. Dr. Eddy directed the Center for Health Policy Research and Education at Duke before becoming an independent researcher and writer."

Resources

“Healthcare Crisis: Meet the Experts.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, https://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/experts.htm.

Haavi Morreim, https://www.linkedin.com/in/haavi-morreim-jd-phd-4a33b974

“Sherry Glied.” Policies for Action, https://www.policiesforaction.org/person/sherry-glied.

“Thomas H. Murray.” Columbia University School of Professional Studies, https://sps.columbia.edu/faculty/thomas-h-murray.

Wilensky, Gail. “Gail Wilensky, Ph.D.” Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., http://www.gailwilensky.com/.