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The virtual dental home: implications for policy and strategy
Paul Glassman1, Maureen Harrington, Elizabeth Mertz
1Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, CA 94115, USA.
Journal of the California Dental Association
|August 25, 2012
Summary
Innovative strategies are needed to address oral health disparities and rising costs in the U.S. The virtual dental home model offers a new approach to improve care, population health, and reduce costs.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Health Services Research
- Dental Public Health
Background:
- The U.S. healthcare system faces significant challenges, including escalating costs and inequities in access and outcomes.
- These systemic issues are mirrored within the domain of oral health, impacting a broad segment of the population.
- Existing oral health delivery and financing models are insufficient to address these multifaceted problems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore innovative strategies for improving oral health systems in the United States.
- To examine the potential of new regulatory, delivery, and financing models to achieve the "Triple Aim" in oral health.
- To introduce and evaluate the virtual dental home as a novel solution.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of current healthcare challenges and their parallels in oral health.
- Review of existing regulatory, delivery, and financing systems within healthcare and dentistry.
- Introduction of the virtual dental home model as a proposed innovative strategy.
Main Results:
- The current U.S. health and oral health systems struggle with high costs and unequal access/outcomes.
- Achieving the "Triple Aim" (better experience, population health, lower costs) requires systemic innovation.
- The virtual dental home presents a viable new model for oral health care delivery and financing.
Conclusions:
- New regulatory, delivery, and financing systems are essential for advancing oral health.
- The virtual dental home model offers a promising pathway to address the "Triple Aim" in oral health.
- Innovative approaches like the virtual dental home are critical for overcoming current oral health system deficiencies.
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