Trends Transforming Advanced Illness Care: The Promise of Technology
Event Description
COVID and other dynamic forces are upending traditional ways of caring for people with serious and advanced illness. People want care in their home and community, not isolated in institutions. Technology, such as telehealth, has potential to accelerate community care, but will the digital divide impede access?
On April 29, we hosted three experts active in care for those in the late stages of life: an innovative community provider; a VC funder who invests in the advanced illness field; and a palliative care clinician steeped in the academic and tech communities.
- View the conversation on Twitter at @PetrieFlom using #AdvancedCareTech.
- Watch the fully captioned event video.
- Check out the organizations our panelists listed as doing interesting work in the field:
Panelists
- Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
- Susan Ponder-Stansel, President and CEO, Alivia Care, a leader in providing serious illness care in the Southeastern US
- David A. Jones, Jr., Founder Chrysalis Ventures; and Director, Humana Inc.
- Ravi Parikh, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Medicine,University of Pennsylvania; and Staff Physician, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
- Moderator: Cheryl Matheis, Senior Fellow in Advanced Care and Health Policy, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics; and Strategic Advisor, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)
This event is part of 2021 Series on Trends Transforming Advanced Illness Care by the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy, a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a non-partisan, non-profit alliance of over 150 national organizations dedicated to being a catalyst to change the health delivery system, empower consumers, enhance provider capacity, and improve public and private policies in advanced illness care, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.