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How should health systems and insurers talk to policymakers, patients and plan members about the concept of value-based care? That was one of the questions addressed by a recent panel discussion hosted by the Duke Margolis Institute of Health Policy.
Kevin Larsen, M.D., senior vice president of clinical innovation at Optum, and a former senior health IT advisor at HHS, said he got a lot of practice at this when he was explaining to clinicians why the Meaningful Use program’s interoperability efforts were important. “I believe that the future is already here; it just isn’t scaled,” Larsen said, “so I tend to tell a story. I tend to find a place that actually is living out what we want the future to be so people can imagine it and then point to it.”