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Great Challenges # 6 - Addressing Healthcare Costs

How do we create smart “healthcare consumers”?

What kind of system adapts to the changing needs of healthier patients?

How can we align stakeholders to reduce healthcare costs?

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Great Challenges #5 - Role of the Patient

Patient empowerment can be a double-edged sword. From hospitals and insurance companies to doctors and patients themselves, much of the medical system increasingly treats patients as “customers” or “consumers,” terms that some people love and others hate. The appropriate role of the patient is to be determined – and the Great Challenges community believes that the following questions will shape that role. Share your thoughts! 

How do we empower patients to make healthier decisions?

What is the patient’s role from his or her perspective?

What is the role of healthy people (non-patients) in healthcare?

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Great Challenges #4 - Making Prevention Popular

America spends $2.8 trillion a year on healthcare — mostly treating people after they become sick. How can we unlock prevention as a trillion-dollar business in America so we spend less on “sick care” and get Americans to “buy” healthy lifestyles? Let us know what you think of the following questions, crafted through feedback from the Great Challenges community – we invite you to answer them, validate them, or reframe them.

Where could health policy go farther to nudge preventive behavior?

Why do we so often do what we know isn't good for us?

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