Overview and Purpose

Incremental progress to improve the quality of care is possible and some is occurring, but incremental changes will not address the problems plaguing the US health care system. New systems of care delivery are needed—systems that support learning from practice and align incentives to improve safety, effectiveness, resource efficiency, timeliness, and equity—for the individual patient and the population. It is time to envision and implement new systems of care delivery. The Health Care Systems of the Future conference will address innovations in health care quality measures, paradigms to align incentives for better health care delivery, illustrations of technology in breast cancer and other areas that promise to improve efficiency and effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, and visions of health care systems for the next century. Join us to begin to create action plans for a new system of health care delivery.

Target Audience

The Health Care Systems of the Future conference will bring together the insight and experience of leaders in health care, research, policy, quality improvement, and other industries to move forward with action plans, for a new system of health care delivery. This program is directed toward those with an interest in cancer and general health care quality and improvement.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this conference, you should be able to:

  • Recognize the impediments built into the current health care system, focusing on how incentives and reimbursement have contributed to the current system
  • Describe innovative advances that align incentives to quality
  • Identify examples of systems that yield measurement and feedback data that support quality improvement and health services research
  • Describe patient and physician roles in future health care systems
  • Discuss proposals for potential health care system financing that overcome some of the challenges of current insurers and plans
CME Accreditation and Credit Designation

Physicians: Physicians’ Education Resource is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physicians’ Education Resource designates this educational activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category 1 CME credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by the ACCME. NOTE: Credit designation is accurate at the time of printing.

Acknowledgment

This activity is supported by an educational grant from UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.