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Exploring Human Potential

NAM President – 19 Health/Wellness Priorities For The Next US President

Medtronic--Dr. Dzau--arranged by Cynthia Hotvedt

Victor J. Dzau, MD; President, NAM

1. Systems strategies for better health throughout the life course

2. Addressing health disparities and social determinants of health

3. Preparing for better health and health care for an aging population

4. Improving physical activity, nutrition, and other prevention programs

5. Integrating mental health and substance abuse services throughout care

6. Healthy communities, population health, and public engagementĀ 

7. Assuring the financing of care that is effective, efficient, and affordable

8. Payment reform for better value and medical innovation

9. Competencies and tools to shift payments from volume to value and outcomes

10. Tailoring complex care management, coordination, and integration

11. Precision medicine and advances in genomics, proteomics, and information

12. Fostering transparency in outcomes, quality, safety, and costs

13. Patients, families, communities, and the democratization of health care

14. Workforce for 21st-century health and health careĀ 

15. Information technology interoperability and use for better care and evidence

16. Data sharing, curation, and use for a continuously learning health system

17. Innovation in development, regulatory review, and use of clinical advances

18. Targeted research: cancers, mental health, and dementia

19. Training the workforce for 21st-century science

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