Dr Bacon succeeds Dr Christina Akerman, who has returned to her native Sweden after four highly successful years as President
The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) announced recently that physician-entrepreneur Dr Neil Bacon has been appointed as its new President and CEO, effective October 1, 2018.
Dr Bacon’s mandate is to take ICHOM, specialising in developing and supporting implementation of global outcome standards across the disease burden, to the next level. Outcome measurement must spread across every health care delivery organisation and nation. ICHOM is also in the initial stages of establishing the first platform for benchmarking outcomes across countries that will enable unprecedented innovation in health care.
Dr Bacon, a nephrologist trained at Oxford and Harvard, is a distinguished academic clinician and health information technology entrepreneur. He is an internationally recognised leader in quality measurement and engaging patients in their health. Dr Bacon founded Doctors.net.uk in 1996, now one of the world’s largest online medical networks used by nearly one quarter of a million physicians worldwide to rapidly obtain clinical information, education, medical news, and career opportunities. In recognition of his contributions utilising the internet to improve healthcare, he was named a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London in 2015.
In 2008, Dr Bacon founded iWantGreatCare, an independent organisation enabling patients to rate and review their doctors, dentists, hospitals, after-care facilities, and medications where he was CEO.
Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, ICHOM Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, commented, “Dr Neil Bacon is a pioneer and entrepreneur in use of information technology to enhance quality measurement and change health care. Universal measurement of outcomes that matter to patients, medical condition by medical condition, is the most powerful single tool to change health care.”
Dr Bacon said, “The worldwide need to measure quality and value in healthcare through standardised outcome measures by condition that matter most to patients is greater than ever. The benefits to patients, providers, and payers of measuring the ultimate quality of care is irrefutable. The opportunity to lead ICHOM to drive such a transformation is truly exciting and creating and comparing patient outcomes will accelerate the importance and influence of ICHOM’s pioneering work worldwide.”
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