Christopher Koller Contributes to White House Report

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) of the White House’s Office of Science & Technology Policy released a report on May 29 entitled “Better Health Care and Lower Costs: Accelerating Improvement through Systems Engineering.”

The report, according to PCAST, “identifies a comprehensive set of actions for enhancing health care across the nation through broader use of systems-engineering principles. Informed by the deliberations of a working group consisting of PCAST members and prominent health-care and systems-engineering experts, the report proposes a strategy that involves: (1) reforming payment systems, (2) building the nation’s health-data infrastructure, (3) providing technical assistance to providers, (4) increasing community collaboration, (5) sharing best practices, and (6) training health professionals in systems engineering approaches.”

“This report highlights the importance of primary care transformation,” says Christopher Koller, who was a member of the PCAST working group. “There findings are consistent with what we’re learning about primary care transformation in the 17 states within the Multi-State Collaborative.” The Multi-State Collaborative is a group of states supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund that have come together to share data and learn from one another about primary care transformation.