The Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, the Connecticut Health Council and the Connecticut Business Group on Health are collaborating once again to organize the second multi-stakeholder health care symposium, Moving To Value - Employers Are Disrupting The Healthcare System. Our goals last year were to (1) establish a common vision and alignment (2) understand current obstacles to broader adoption of certain market shifting initiatives, and (3) Identify actionable solutions.

Following the inaugural Forum, a working group was launched focusing on the healthcare needs of Connecticut’s employers. The mission of this group is to create inspired followers of the value-based healthcare movement who share the passion for transforming our State's healthcare sector into a transparent system focused on achieving the highest quality outcomes at a reasonable cost for our healthcare consumers.

And more progress to report. Payers, providers, employers and the State of Connecticut are all actively working on projects to bring value to our market.  We’ll highlight some of those successes and two pivotal issues still facing our State’s employers (1) the opaque pharma industry and (2) the need to modernize primary care and its’ relationships with specialty centers of excellence.  While Congress continues to debate the future of healthcare, and external disruptors have emerged on the scene, we are poised in the State of Connecticut to finally cross the chasm on the way to a value- based healthcare system for our population. This is our collective moral imperative.