Dan Henderson, MD, MPH
Boston internist. Building the primary care I always wanted to receive.
Boston internist. Building the primary care I always wanted to receive.
How do we achieve the healthcare we all want?
Every system is perfectly designed to achieve exactly the results it gets. Our healthcare system was not built to optimize for what we actually want from it. We don't have a cost problem. We don't have a quality problem. We have a value problem.
For the last twenty years I've been on a journey to understand how we got here — and to contribute, in whatever way I can, to building the healthcare we say we want and do not yet have.
It won't come from inside medicine's box. We need to learn from Apple about obsessing over the person on the receiving end, from Toyota about quality as a continuous practice, from the manager of the local Bertucci's about the quietly radical idea that a stranger can be made to feel cared for in twenty minutes. Other industries have been refining this craft for decades while medicine has too often congratulated itself on its own complexity.
And we have to hold on to the soul of medicine — the careful, deliberate application of science, to the ultimate aim: helping people feel well and live their best lives.
CurrentlyAt WHOOP, Portfolio Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Teaching at Harvard Medical School. MBA candidate at Quantic.
Shaping the medical strategy behind Advanced Labs and clinical partnerships across the platform.
General internal medicine practice.
A small in-home concierge practice — by referral only.
Clinical leadership of a value-based primary care group serving underserved older adults.
Redesigned clinical operations for a not-for-profit plan serving dually-eligible members with complex needs.
Built and led the physician team for a mobile-integrated urgent care program — twelve thousand home visits a year.
Faculty on primary care quality improvement, in partnership with the Brigham and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Teaching residents and medical students at BWH and MGH.
Longitudinal internal medicine practice in Charlestown.
Led resident-driven quality improvement in the medicine residency.
Email is best.
Advisory, consulting & press
dan@danhendersonmd.com
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