Breaking down silos: engaging students to help fix the US health care system

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Table 1 Student-identified US health care problem and solution for each discipline

Discipline	Problem	Solution
Public health	The absence of public health awareness and collaboration	Development of properly aligned incentives across disciplines
Prehealth	The dispersed US health care-delivery model	A vertically integrated health maintenance organization
Nursing	The decline in primary care access	Increasing mid-level practitioner scope of practice
Allied health	The increasing provider shortage	Implementation of interdisciplinary care teams and care coordination
Medicine	The incomplete medical education curriculum	Teaching physicians how to teach to increase patient activation
Business	The absence of nonclinical quality improvement	A coordinated quality bonus-payment system
Engineering	The risk-averse culture of medical technology and innovation	Interdisciplinary refinement of medical regulation policies

Figure S1 HIP student symposium presentations and video stream.

Abbreviation: HIP, Healthcare Innovation Program.

Table S1 SICK: Healthcare in the modern era, 2013: course prospectus and materials

#	Date	Category	Session topic	Lecture topic	School	Dept	Lecturer(s)	Min
1	1/16	General/medical	Introduction	Introduction to course schedule and grading	Medicine	Neurology	Conveners	30
				Doctor’s perspective with cases	Medicine	Neurology	Jaffar Khan Bob Gaynes	60
				A social perspective with cases	Arts and Sciences	Sociology	Jeff Mullis	60
2	1/23	Economics	Macro-economics	Overview healthcare economics US	Arts and Sciences	Economics	Sarah Markowitz	60
				Payment models: current and alternative	Public Health	Health Policy	Steve Culler	60
				Old and new care models	Medicine	Neurology	Gregory Esper	60
3	1/30	Context and comparison		Historical context for modern healthcare	Arts and Sciences	History	Elena Conis	90
				Comparative health systems	Public Health	Health Policy	Richard Saltman	90
4	2/6	Operations I	Operations management	Physician/provider financial challenges	Business	Neurology	Diwas KC	60
			Operations management	Workforce solutions and alternatives	Nursing		Dena Gilland	60
			Care models	Integrated care and other models	Medicine		Rick Gitomer	60
5	2/13	Operations II	Prevention	Cost control and prevention	Public Health	Health Policy	David Howard	60
			Measures	Outcomes/quality measures	Public Health	Health Policy	Kimberly Rask	60
			Measures	Benchmarking	Public Health	Health Policy	Edmund Becker	60
6	2/20			<<<Midterm presentations/evaluations>>>				90
7	2/27	Operations III	Access	Access to care, Medicaid	Public Health	Health Policy	Kathleen Adams	60
			Social determinants	Vulnerable populations:	Panel	Panel	Panel:	90
				Indigence			Leon Haley	20
				Pediatrics			Barbara Stoll	20
				Elderly			Ted Johnson	20
				LGBT			Schneider	20
8	3/6	Healthcare and politics	Healthcare policy	Doctors and congress: politician perspective	NA	NA	Tom Price	60
			Healthcare policy	Doctors and congress: lobbyist/liaison	Multiple	Multiple	Matthew Hicks Andy Lord	60
			Healthcare reform	Current healthcare reform and ACA	Medicine	Medicine	Maura George	60
9	3/20	Medicine and the law		Mass regulations on healthcare and ACA	GSU Law	Law	Fuse Brown	60
				Liabilities, regulations and implications	GSU Law	Law	Leslie Wofl	60
				Patient advocacy and vulnerable populations	Law	Law	Ani Staz	60
10	3/27	Ethics and philosophy	Ethics	Principles of medical ethics overview			John Banja	90
				“Death panels”/end of life	Medicine	Neurology	Adam Webb; Tammie Quest	90
11	4/3	Scholarship		State of health professional education			Melissa Faulkner	60
				The state of research in the US			David Stephens	60
				Academic medical centers	Medicine	Neurology	Fred Sanfilippo	60
12	4/10	Technology	Health and clinical informatics	Medical informatics Specifics TBD	Medicine/GA Tech	Medicine	Dan Russler	60
			Health and clinical informatics	Medical informatics Specifics TBD	Medicine/GA Tech	Medicine	Mark Braunstein	60
13	4/17	Special populations	Global health	International health and outreach	Public Health	Medicine	Carlos Del Rio	60
			Emergency care	Emergency care in the US	Medicine	Emergency Medicine	Jason Liebzeit	60
			Vulnerable populations	Indigent care and other vulnerable populations	Medicine	Emergency Medicine	Jada Bussey-Jones	60
14	4/24			<< Final presentations>>

Abbreviations: ACA, Affordable Care Act; Dept, department; GA, Georgia; GSU, Georgia State University; LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender; Min, minutes; NA, not applicable; tBD, to be determined.