Future of Critical Care: Dr. Lakshman Swamy, Medical Director @MassHealth, Critical Care Physician @Cambridge Health Alliance, Instructor in Medicine @Harvard Medical School

Critical Care demand has been growing consistently every year by 2% due to the increase in aging population. Most of the critical care system is fragmented, under high stress and we have experts working in this space to make it innovative, efficient and sustainable. 

Lakshman Swamy, is a Medical Director at MassHealth focused on Payment & Care Delivery Innovation and an Assistant Professor of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Medical School. Clinically, he is a pulmonary/critical care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He completed his Internal Medicine & Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine training at Boston Medical Center & VA Boston. He is interested in addressing the delivery of care and working environments to reduce burnout and improve patient outcomes.

Takeaways

• Physician burnout was increased significantly during Covid- 19
• Less focus on making numbers perfect, more focused on high value care - least risky, least invasive and highest quality care
• Patient throughput and predicting supply chain demand is critical for the future of pandemics 
• Future of Health: Healthcare without addressing social determinants of health is not sustainable, more emphasis on patient engagement and education is required, better standardization of processes focusing on unique characteristics of patients would be a game changer