Scenarios for primary care in 2025 and recommendations for working toward a preferred future
Project of the Institute for Alternative Futures supported by a grant from the Kresge Foundation
Available online at: http://bit.ly/y7qkXi
“………Forecasts by numerous health care experts strongly suggest that primary care is likely to be very different from what we experience today. While the recent health care reform legislation is driving change from a policy level, developments in technology, disease knowledge, health care financing, care protocols and modalities, and other areas are transforming the field of primary care.
As these changes unfold, it will be essential for policy-makers, public health officials, health care providers, and others to understand the alternative paths that 21st century primary care could take…..”
Scenario Workshop Toolkit: In addition to the full report, IAF has developed a scenario toolkit http://bit.ly/yU6n1o and
slides http://bit.ly/yte9SU to help organizations, health care providers, and communities to conduct scenario planning exercises and consider the implications of these Primary Care 2025 Scenarios for their own strategies and operations.
“……Scenarios are different stories describing how the future may unfold. Scenarios force us to consider the systems surrounding our topic and to clarify our assumptions. Given persistent uncertainty, they bound that uncertainty into a limited number of paths. These paths help us think about different probabilities in a larger space of possibilities.
People who work with scenarios find more creative options than those who develop plans based only on the past and present. Strategies, plans, and actions that are created can also be “future tested” against the different scenarios to assure robust initiatives rather than continued efforts based on outdated assumptions. Scenarios are the best method for systematically addressing the uncertain future.
IAF has developed various types of scenarios using the “Aspirational Futures” technique. This technique develops scenarios in three zones:
■ A “zone of conventional expectation” reflecting the extrapolation of known trends, the expectable future;
■ A “zone of growing desperation” which presents a set of plausible challenges that an organization may face, a challenging future; and
■ A “zone of high aspiration,” in which a critical mass of stakeholders pursues visionary strategies and achieves surprising success. (Two scenarios are developed in this zone in order to offer two alternative pathways to surprisingly successful or visionary futures.)………….”
Content:
Introduction
Why Scenarios? 1
Development of the Primary Care 2025 Scenarios
Evolution of Primary Care in the
Four Primary Care 2025 Scenarios
SCENARIO 1: “Many Needs, Many Models”
SCENARIO 2: “Lost Decade, Lost Health”
SCENARIO 3: “Primary Care That Works for All”
SCENARIO 4: “I Am My Own Medical Home”
Comparative Matrix
Primary Care 2025 National Workshop
Recommendations and Robust Strategies
Health Professional Education
Individual and Community Capacity and Accountability
Health Information Technology
Population Health
Political and Cultural Change
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Acknowledgements
Appendix 2: Forces Shaping Primary Care
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