CottageHealth CEO

Great hike with Team Cottage at Summit for Danny today raising money for CADA. Way to go team!!

Home now! Thanks for following our travels!

Significant international self pay clientele. #selfpay

Resource for those wanting to have access to high quality, rapid elective procedures through private insurance or self pay.

Toured the London Clinic with CEO and CMO, a NFP private alternative to the NHS. #londonclinic

Friday: House of Commons voted down assisted suicide, same day as California Legislature approved it

Who do you want to make end of life decisions: self, spouse, child, or MD? Varies by age, gender, marital status, and education

Visited Cisely Saunders Inst. at King's Coll., world's only palliative care research institute. Focus on decision making for end of life

Part of the healing garden in front of St. Thomas' Hospital

Visited the FN Museum at St. Thomas' Hospital. Really amazing to read her log book reviews of her staff in Crimea.

Barriers to shift to value/patient oriented systems are surprisingly similar. #populationhealth

Emerging int'l comm. focus on pop health, shift from pay for activity to value/patient oriented system, combines social support, med. care

Dr. Heaversedge heads efforts to address pop disparities, merge social, med. services. Impressive goals for 300k highly diverse residents

Great discussion with Dr. Jonty Heaversedge, Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group.

UK efforts to improve population health include GP led Clinical Commissioning Groups and Vanguard integrated delivery systems.

Met at 10 Downing with PM Special Health Advisor Nick Seddon and host Pam Garside.

Big social marketing effort underway in the UK to address health issues directly with consumers. #stoptober

Big population health issues in UK are tobacco, obesity, alcohol, 0-5 year olds, dementia, TB, and antibiotic resistance.

Critical to create valid data, define specific measurable goals, gain community engagement, create incentives. #populationhealth

Met Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing for UK, formerly at CDC, on population health. #populationhealth