If you're committed to improving health outcomes, how far beyond the traditional healthcare system should you be willing to look?
In this Episode 25 Reflection, Bruce Spurlock builds on his conversation with Rich Rasmussen, President and CEO of the Oklahoma Hospital Association, and explores what healthcare leaders can learn from the development of the Oklahoma Healthy Oklahoma Profile, or OK HOP.
Transportation, food access, broadband, preventive services, virtual care, and other factors outside the hospital can have an enormous impact on health. The challenge is that healthcare organizations cannot address every need at once.
Bruce discusses why leaders need to identify the highest-leverage opportunities in individual communities, prioritize limited resources, and collaborate across the public and private sectors rather than treating healthcare as a collection of separate \"swim lanes.\"
The larger lesson is about thinking differently. Improving health requires understanding the entire system surrounding the people and communities we serve, then determining where focused action can have the greatest impact.
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