Pressured by rising costs along with an influx of newly insured patients under the Affordable Care Act, and a growing demand to improve quality, efficiency and patient involvement, medicine is facing massive changes and challenges. At the same time, there are also ample new opportunities.
There is no shortage of good ideas to fix the health care system. Hospitals, state initiatives, innovative startups, practitioner techniques, health policy wonks, and patients themselves are all developing new strategies and methods to improve the system. But lassoing those ideas and getting pioneers and visionaries in the same room to share, expand and hash out the logistics has been a problem in the past. Like just about everything else, though, this too is changing.
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