Health care is incredibly complex.

Patients trying to navigate the provider circuit in a constant chase to obtain the best possible care in the least redundant fashion. Providers trying to deliver the best possible care with the least amount of bureaucracy that today seems to only be keeping them away from spending quality time with patients. Pharmaceutical industry trying to develop innovative medicines despite innumerable regulatory, legal & bureaucratic hurdles driving a web of risk & cost that is hard to manage with sustainable ROIs. Payers trying to squeeze their budgets in order to enable access to the most innovative therapies that have curative potential and that yet are not fitting into legacy, short-term reimbursement models. Policymakers trying to keep up with the ever accelerating pace of phenomenal progress in science, medicine & digital solutions in order to enable the safe & compliant use of novel technologies.

FRAGMENTATION DESTROYS VALUE AND TRUST

‘It Takes 5 to Tango’ chapter 3

Complex systems require complex solutions.

How simplistic to believe that 1 actor alone could solve all the complex problems in health care. Pharma alone? Payers alone? Providers alone? Policymakers alone? And, for sure, not the patient alone. Only once all actors on the health care stage start co-creating solutions together, will we be able to collectively find the answers to the most pressing questions that will heal our ailing systems.

Building bridges and learning the steps along the way on how to effectively dance a Tango For Five is our only chance to regain the balance between innovation & affordability in a humanistic system of health.

VALUE EMERGES AT THE INTERSECTIONS

It Takes 5 to Tango, Conclusion Chapter