  Saturday, October 21 at 8PM
Today's healthcare landscape is complex and can be very confusing to understand, let alone change. Remaking Minnesota Medicine, tpt's new program on health care, looks at various efforts in our state to improve quality of patient care and transform the way healthcare is delivered to the consumer. Created in conjunction with the four-part national PBS series, Remaking American Medicine; both programs examine innovations in the health care system.
Although health care is a multi-billion dollar industry, and escalating costs are being felt by all Americans, most of us don't give it much thought until we are sick. Now, increasingly there are initiatives that are trying to transform the system by better engaging with the patient, who at the most basic level is the "consumer" of health care.
Remaking Minnesota Medicine shows how new ideas are taking hold here in our state. We examine a program to get more people primary care coverage, how a group of large employers banded together to better control insurance costs and the unique community approach to health care in one rural town. Back in tpt's studios, experts discuss current topics such as paying doctors for performance, giving patient and doctor incentives for preventive care and setting standards to measure quality of care. |
