PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Business Group on Health will feature two speakers on the subject of overuse of medical care in the health care market at its upcoming Legislative Breakfast on March 2.
Shannon Brownlee has recently signed on to speak at the event. Brownlee is the senior vice president of the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan, public-policy think tank based in Boston. She is also the author of “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,” named the best economics book of 2007 by The New York Times.
Brownlee is a journalist and the acting director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, according to her biography on Time.com.
Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and The New Republic. She is well-known for her research and views on avoidable health care, the patchy quality of medical evidence and the implications for health care policy.
The event will also welcome keynote speaker Dr. Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine and professor of health management and policy at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
Fendrick coined the term value-based insurance design and directs the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan, the leading advocate for development, implementation and evaluation of innovative health benefit plans. His research focuses on how clinician payment and consumer engagement initiatives impact access to care, quality of care and health care costs.
Fendrick will speak about V-BID, findings from other states such as Virginia and possible pathways toward the elimination of low-value care.
The event runs 7:30-11 a.m., Friday, March 2, at Providence Marriott Downtown, 1 Orms St., Providence.
Rob Borkowski is a PBN staff writer. Email him at Borkowski@PBN.com.
