Carole Roan Gresenz

How Improved Health and Longer Lives Drive Global Prosperity

Thomas Frieden, Jonathan Gluck, Carole Roan Gresenz, Michael Harsh, Peter Margolis, Ceci Connolly

A panel of experts from the CDC, GE Health Care, and leading academic institutions demonstrated that shifting from fee-for-service models to accountable care systems can simultaneously improve population health and reduce long-term costs through specific innovations like immunizations and diagnostic imaging. By leveraging data standardization, prize challenges, and telehealth pilots, the session highlighted how eliminating clinical variation and preventing disease rather than treating it generates billions in annual societal savings. The discussion concluded that political and payment reforms, rather than technological limitations, remain the primary obstacles to fully realizing these economic benefits and fostering entrepreneurial growth through universal insurance access.