The US healthcare system is a paradox – while it makes billions of dollars and fuels innovation, it doesn’t always focus on patient outcomes.

Why it matters

Americans’ life expectancy is lagging behind other wealthy countries and falling, because – when viewed at a system level – US healthcare is failing. What’s required is a modern strategy, that uses systems thinking to guide the emergence of new economic models which reward and measure the production of health.

Takeaways

• The pieces of the US healthcare system should matter less than the whole; new value won’t come from the discrete use of...