Building a Healthy America

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Building a Healthy America

A Vision and Strategy for

Achieving a Healthy America

We as a nation have begun a challenging journey toward reforming the American health system and improving Americans’ health.

The need and demand for transformation is great because today we spend 1/6^th ($2.5 trillion) of our national economy on health without producing healthy Americans or a healthy America. Without a transformation in health vision, strategy and execution, our future will be as disappointing as our past.

To positively change that future and support the health reform effort, one approach - “Building a Healthy America” - is an integrated strategy, using “HealthePeople” and "viaFuture" as supporting strategies, with the long-term vision to achieve healthy Americans and a healthy America.

This “Building a Healthy America” strategy was created with the belief that America can reach this vision via an endgame strategy of a high performance, American health (including long term care) system for all Americans that is self-perpetuating, affordable, accessible, “e” enabled, and producing high health quality, outcomes and status.

Such an American system, partly physical and partly virtual and put into place by collaborative private and public partnerships, will greatly improve accessibility, quality and affordability for all Americans.

Fortunately, America is proceeding with national health reform. But, even if enacted, it will not cover all issues and implementation will be a huge challenge. “Building a Healthy America” addresses current proposals, the remaining gaps and the execution challenges. Combining the best of all our strategies, together we can build a substantially healthier America and move toward a truly healthy America.

Support

Support Available

With a vision of a healthy America and reducing vulnerability, "Building a Healthy America" can help you develop and implement collaborative strategies within and across organizations:

Drawing on and making available 30+ years of senior executive and policy experience with Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector, it can assist you (advocates, policy makers, mission-driven organizations and collaboratives, and governments) who need a partner and/or advocate or a national level speaker or a consultant.

To discuss a potential partnership, advocacy, a speaker and/or a consultant, please contact Gary Christopherson via email or phone.

Approach

Building a Healthy America is a collaborative strategy to transform to affordable, accessible, person-centered, outcomes-driven, "e" enabled and quality systems to build an American health system achieving a healthy America, including:

National Health Reform – Strategies for affordable, accessible, quality and transformed health system.

High Performance Health Systems – Support health organizations and collaborations to create and/or improve health systems for organizations, communities, regions, States and nations.

Un- and Underinsured – Strategies that ease or solve the problem.

Quality Improvement – Move health care providers/systems to high quality (health outcomes/status) and performance.

Fair Payment Systems - Fairly managing costs and rate of growth through pay for performance/value, and bundling.

Electronic Health Record Systems – Ensure EHR and PHR systems improve health and health care substantially.

Virtual Health System – Use systems of standards, electronic health records, personal health records, exchange.

Person-centered health – Develop person-centered health and person-provider partnership.

Behavioral Effectiveness – Improve health and behavior using behavior/health systems.

viaFuture - Combines leadership with the "via" core system of “next generation” strategies, models and tools to create and sustain change. www.viaFuture.org

www.viaFuture.org

viaFuture

"viaFuture" is a strategy to create and sustain large, positive change. It combines strong leadership and multi-generational involvement with next generation policy, program, information and management.

We need a better future and a better vision for that future. We need a vision where all generations join together to fix our broken world and save our endangered future. We want to achieve positive, sustainable systems that help save what is broken and what is endangered and achieve a better future, a thriving world.

To help make this happen, viaFuture draws upon lessons learned over the past 30+ years by Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector organizations to create more effective and integrated programs and policies and to successfully manage these programs and policies.

www.VulnerableInAmerica.org

Vulnerable in America (via)

In America and in the world, we are all vulnerable to a greater or less extent. Americans need to minimize vulnerability via policies and politics that systematically stop forces that push us down to more vulnerability and support forces that lift us out of vulnerability.

“Vulnerable in America (via)” is the suggested term for a national strategy to minimize vulnerability. “Vulnerable in America” is what we are targeting to change. “via”, defined as by way or means of, is how we bring about the change. We can set the vision for a thriving America and the endgame strategy for achieving that vision.

To help make this happen, Vulnerable in America (via) draws upon lessons learned over the past 30+ years by Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector organizations to create more effective and integrated programs and policies to reduce vulnerability and to successfully manage these programs and policies.