Adapting Promising Innovations to Meet the Needs of High-Need, High-Cost Populations
This blog post was originally posted on April 5, 2019 at Commonwealthfund.org. Recent research attributes the majority of health care spending to a small number of individuals, sometimes described as “high-need, high-cost” — the 5 percent of the population who account for 50 percent of expenditures. One way to improve care for high-need, high-cost patients, and make our health system more effective for everyone, is to identify promising health delivery and payment innovations from around the world and foster their adaptation in the United States to drive transformative, rather than incremental, change. As part of a multiyear effort, the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Duke Global Health Innovation Center have partnered with the Commonwealth Fund to identify global and domestic innovations, from patient education initiatives to team-based delivery models, that can drive these changes.…