INBW37: Harnessing the Miracle of the Commons to Improve the Patient Journey Nationwide, A Conversation With Dave Dierk, Co-President of Aventria Health Group

Harnessing the Miracle of the Commons to Improve the Patient Journey Nationwide, A Conversation With Dave Dierk, Co-President of Aventria Health Group (INBW37)

Stacey Richter is joined by Dave Dierk, co-president of Aventria Health Group, to introduce Groundswell — Aventria's framework for getting diverse healthcare stakeholders to collaborate on closing care gaps, inspired by Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning "miracle of the commons" research.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ What Aventria's Groundswell Solution is and how it improved best-practice guideline usage for end-stage liver disease patients by 23% nationally

✅ What Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning "miracle of the commons" research reveals about how humans collaborate to solve shared problems

✅ Why simply flagging a care gap — without knowing the how or why — is enough to start a Groundswell collaboration

✅ How curated, highly targeted information delivered at the point of care can close awareness gaps for clinicians

✅ Why understanding each stakeholder's different goals is essential to serving "many masters" in a successful collaboration

WHY THIS MATTERS

Aventria's Groundswell work shows that diverse stakeholders — even ones with different, sometimes competing goals — can collaborate to meaningfully close care gaps when the effort starts small, with a flagged gap and a willingness to meet people where they are. The 23% national improvement in liver disease guideline adherence is proof that this kind of grassroots, cross-stakeholder collaboration scales.

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00:00 Introduction

03:03 How can areas of improvement be flagged in such a fragmented patient care journey?

04:06 What is "the miracle of the commons"?

04:54 How is the miracle of the commons being used at Aventria and QC-Health?

07:51 What is Groundswell, and how does it utilize the miracle of the commons?

11:13 "Is the answer, then, to drive more knowledge and more awareness?"—Dave

11:35 "What about using technology to provide curated, highly targeted information that can support them at the point of care?"—Dave

13:25 "You want to identify where these gaps are across the full spectrum of the journey."—Dave

15:08 "This is something that is not commonly happening on its own."—Dave

16:40 "Done in the right way, people are excited…to improve care and improve outcomes."—Dave

18:50 "Our aim is really to meet people and teams where they are."—Stacey

19:35 "You don't have to know how or why or where — merely that I think this outcome is not what it could be. That's the place to start."—Dave

20:01 "You have to understand the different goals of the different stakeholders."—Dave

21:14 "If we can do the right things the right way, then we can serve many masters."—Dave