The Role of Health Technology in the New Care Models

 Speaker: CDR Kevin Dorrance, MD, FACP, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda. CDR Dorrance talks about how to realize health technology’s potential to improve communications between physicians and patients, understand health initiatives that are rewarding physicians on the basis of quality and discover how to enhance the coordination of care in a PCMH. 

Kevin A. Dorrance, CDR

Chief, Internal Medicine, and Assistant Deputy Commander, Medical Services, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda
CDR Kevin A. Dorrance is currently Chief, Internal Medicine, and Assistant Deputy Commander, Medical Services, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda. As head of Internal Medicine, he adapted and implemented the first patient-centered medical home in the military health system, where he now focuses on population health management.  He enlisted in 1981 and served as a gas turbine electronic technician on board the USS Hewitt (DD-966) and USS Acadia (AD-42). He achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer before being accepted in the Enlisted Commissioning Program. CDR Dorrance was graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991 with a BS degree in molecular cellular developmental biology and was commissioned as Ensign, United States Navy, that same year. read more
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