Academy Holds Virtual Health Summit
The Academy held a Virtual Health Summit on Thursday, putting a spotlight on the “Broadening the Focus” series, including the most recent publication, Unveiling the Framework, a holistic, principles-based approach to evaluating health care programs and benefits. Designed for use by actuaries and other stakeholders, the framework complements traditional financial metrics and evaluations and is intended to provide support to decisionmakers in their evaluations. Summit presenters covered how a more holistic evaluation approach can improve health care access and affordability.
HealthBegins founder and President Dr. Rishi Manchanda gave the opening keynote presentation. “The Broadening the Focus framework is already being looked at by a lot of nonactuarial leaders across the country—especially those who are part of this emerging network and are thinking about what it would take to help unlock and align new capital flows and financing for health equity,” Manchanda said. “What you’re doing is [at the] vanguard.”
Look for the summit recording to be posted on Academy Learning soon, and for more coverage in the April Actuarial Update and an Actuarially Sound blog post later this month.
