Prakash and I talked about a lot of super interesting things that I tried to summarize below.
I have also gathered some links and references here:
Here you can find Prakash’s CV as summarized by Dell Medical School on their website https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/prakash-jayakumar
He speaks about how he came to see beyond individual care in orthopedics and moved on to think of having impact on the system, after having developed a strong clinical core as part of his identity
He talks about the formative years he spent at Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Business School and Insead
He does talk about the Harkness Felloship Program (see here https://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships/harkness-fellowships-health-care-policy-and-practice) and got to work with some very influential people in the vbhs space such as Dr. Kevin Bosiz (https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/kevin-bozic), Elisabeth Teisberg (https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/elizabeth-teisberg), Thomas Lee (https://hsph.harvard.edu/ecpe/faculty/thomas-h-lee/) and David Ring (https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/david-ring)
We speak about Dell Medical School and their path to value-based care (https://www.dell.org/story/our-vision-for-a-healthy-austin/) that really started from a population / health area approach. Their mantra “get and stay healthy”
The associated hospital is called UT Health Austin (https://uthealthaustin.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand&gclid=CjwKCAiAx_GqBhBQEiwAlDNAZk1BoOdLNB3Jy6TrpM-AZ8RnwrvNTmoF7HWEsqbG6556lCnvbn98IhoCPusQAvD_BwE); it has multiple IPUs
There are courses at Dell Medical School about vbhc, you can find information here https://vbhc.dellmed.utexas.edu/courses/course-v1:dms+vbhc1A+2020-21/about
His take on what is happening in the healthcare space in regards to vbhc is that we see the system moving away from an organisation of care that is based on (billed) procedures and towards a condition-based one with the goal of “getting it right the first time” an focusing on appropriateness of care from the get go
Here you can get more information aboout vbhc prize that Prakash received https://vbhcprize.com/next-generation-musculoskeletal-condition-based-care-via-advanced-ipus/
His book recommendation is “How NASA builds teams” by James Pellerin https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Charles-J-Pellerin/dp/0470456485
