The Advantages of a Collaborative Cardiac Care Model

Host: Jack Lewin, MD Guest: George Halvorson How does an integrated cardiac care model work, and how difficult a process is such a model to implement? What are the various components of the program, and what have the results been? George Halvorson, chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente and author of the book Healthcare Will Not Reform Itself, joins host Dr. Jack Lewin to discuss the advantages of a collaborative care model and the importance of efficient data flow. How might such a systematic, coordinated model impact the discussion of health care reform?