90 Minute Workshop

Educational Programs, Workshops, Seminars, New Idea Session, and Small Group Discussions

E-010 - Chair of the ADEA Board of Director's Symposium—From Classroom to Boardroom: Transforming Health Systems Through Integration

Presenter(s)

• RD

  R. Bruce Donoff, D.M.D., MD

  Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• CR

  Christine Riedy, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  Harvard School of Dental Medicine
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  Kenneth Wright, D.M.D., M.P.H.

  Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest
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  R. Quinn Dufurrena, D.D.S., J.D.

  United Concordia Companies
• JB

  Jane Barrow, M.S.

  Harvard School of Dental Medicine Dental Medicine

Our medical and dental education delivery and payment systems are fragmented, resulting in gaps in training for providers and in care for patients. Our systems need to be redesigned to integrate care across the health continuum from the interprofessional education of providers to multidisciplinary delivery of care to combined benefits packages. Coordination of efforts among various stakeholders is key to successful implementation and sustainability of systems change. Three experts in oral health integration will review systemic challenges and share their innovative work. Early results suggest integration can lead to enhanced provider satisfaction, better health outcomes and lower overall healthcare costs.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe innovative models of integration in education, care delivery and financing and how they are inter-related.
  
• Recognize the challenges of planning, implementing and sustaining integrated systems change.
• Identify stakeholder groups inside and outside of their organization with whom partnership and collaboration is critical for successful medical dental integration.