Kent Bottles

Lecturer

Kent Bottles, M.D., teaches graduate-level classes in health policy at The Thomas Jefferson School of Population Health, delivers keynotes on health care transformation and payment reform, and conducts physician leadership academies for integrated delivery systems. He is the former president and CEO of of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) in the Twin Cities.  ICSI is a collaborative of hospitals, physicians, health plans, employers, and patients that concentrate on evidence based medicine, payment reform, process work redesign, and health care reform. Dr. Bottles is a pathologist by training, and he is frequently called upon by hospital associations, bio-tech companies, medical associations, and Health 2.0 organizations to give keynotes on disruptive technologies and the future of medicine.

Articles

Notes on the Care Innovation Summit

<p>Anyone who is concerned about the future transformation of the United States clinical delivery system should pay attention to the Care Innovations Summit.</p>

Health Care Reform Law and the Struggle between Mind and Heart

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/CHBLOW-BIO.html">Charles M. Blow</a> documents that President Obama's sales job for the health care reform law has so far resulted in his lowest approval ratings on health care (34%) since taking office. Blow writes that: "This underscores the current fight for the soul of this country. It's not just a tug of war between left and right. It's a struggle between the mind and the heart, between evidence and emotions, between reason and anger, between what we know and what we believe."</p>