DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF), in partnership with Imperial College London, has announced its second event in the Leading Health Systems Network’s (LHSN) Safer Care Webinar Series: The Comprehensive Care Physician Model: Improving Care Continuity for High-risk Patients.
Taking place on Thursday, the webinar will focus on the rationale and design of the Comprehensive Care Physician Model, a University of Chicago Medicine programme that aims to improve continuity of patient care after a hospital stay and strengthen the bond between doctor and patient.
The model seeks to achieve its aim by assigning comprehensive care physicians (CCPs) to provide both inpatient and outpatient care to patients who are at high risk of hospitalisation, thereby ensuring better care provision at a lower cost. The featured speaker for the webinar is Professor David O Meltzer (pictured), Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences, and Chair of the Committee on Clinical and Translational Science at The University of Chicago, where he is Professor in the Department of Medicine, and affiliated faculty of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Department of Economics.
Meltzer’s research explores problems in health economics and public policy with a focus on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis and the cost and quality of hospital care.
Prof Meltzer said: “The Comprehensive Care Physician idea brings together the insights of modern health economics and health outcomes research with among the oldest ideas in all of medicine: when a patient is sick, they need someone they can trust and who knows them as a person.”The Peninsula
