Solving the Health Care Reform Puzzle: How to Balance Cost, Access, and Quality

Hosted by College of Arts and Sciences and College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association

The first Discoveries Lecture of the 2009 academic year focuses on solutions for the health-care crisis. The BU panelists sharing their insights are Gary Young, chair of the department of health policy and management at the School of Public Health, Arlene Ash, a School of Medicine research professor of medicine and public health, and Stephen Davidson, a School of Management professor of business, policy, and law. Randall Ellis, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of economics moderates.

The speakers agree that the U.S. health-care system is broken and that solutions must help it to run more efficiently and at lower costs. One way to do this is to offer incentives to physicians and hospitals to provide quality care and prevent unnecessary and costly hospital visits and readmissions. Panelists also suggest that a more efficient system would include much more collaboration among physicians who are treating the same patient.

October 8, 2009,  7 p.m.
George Sherman Union

Video length is 01:16:40.

About the Speakers:
Gary Young is chair and professor of health policy and management at the School of Public Health. He also is associate director of the Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which is affiliated with Boston University. His writings and research have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Services Research, Inquiry, Health Affairs, Medical Care, and Strategic Management Journal, among other publications. He was awarded the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Arlene Ash is a School of Medicine research professor of medicine and public health, a School of Public Health adjunct research professor, and an expert in the application of statistical methods to questions of public policy. Her areas of interests include researching the differences in health-care service delivery and outcomes by race, sex, and age, Medicare, and systematic problems in health delivery systems. She is a fellow of the Academy of Health and of the American Statistical Association and past chair of the association’s health policy statistics section. Ash’s current research projects focus on racial disparities in health-care services for Medicare beneficiaries and on risk assessment of military populations to predict health-care cost and utilization.

Stephen Davidson is a School of Management professor of business, policy, and law. He also researches the management of health-care organizations. Davidson is the author of In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System.

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