Institute For The Future

Rethinking Care Models in the Post-ACA Decade

Boundaries are important. In health, meaningful boundaries protect personal health information, ensure patient and product safety, and, in many cases, they improve efficiencies and scalability, contribute to cost savings, and improve health outcomes.

But over the next decade, many of these fixed boundaries may not serve people's health needs. And long-held assumptions about hierarchy and authority have created misleading, even false, boundaries.

On July 14, IFTF's Health Futures Lab hosts Rethinking Care Models in the Post-ACA Decade, a workshop where we’ll explore the false boundaries, or boundaries that are no longer useful, in health and health care—and how they can be erased or redrawn to create sustaining, effective care models for the next decade.

Picking up on the work of Clayton Christensen, a world innovation expert who argues that “false boundaries” constrain innovation, we’ve researched new care models that have erased and redrawn boundaries between institution-based and community-based care, expert and patient, treatment and cures, human and robot, prognosis and informed decision-making, data silos and flows. We’ll share our research and work together to identify the most promising innovations of the next decade.

Guest Speakers

We're excited to have some amazing guests joining us on the 14th! Here's a sneak peek:

DEVELOPING SUSTAINING, EFFECTIVE CARE MODELS FOR 2015-2025
Spencer Nam, Senior Research Fellow, Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation

BLOCKCHAIN HEALTH
Melanie Swan, Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies

PANEL: CONTINUITY OF CARE IN POPULATION HEALTH
Clemens Hong, MD, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Shira Shavit, MD, Executive Director, Transitions Clinic Network

Follow along online

While this event isn't open to the public, you can still follow along on Facebook and on Twitter with @IFTF and #aca2025.

Curious about IFTF's Health Futures Lab?

For more details on our health research or how to become a member, contact Dawn Alva:

[email protected]
650-233-9585