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Conference Details - Overview

Health Care Systems of the Future

JW Marriott San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Sep 26, 2008

Conference Overview

Conference Description & Purpose

This activity is presented by Physicians’ Education Resource in conjunction with the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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.

Background Material

We have attached papers for background reading and reference for the Health Care System of the Future conference. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these papers before the start of the conference. You may access the documents (in PDF format) by following the links below:

Crossroads In Quality

Dutch Treatment: In Holland, Some See Model For U.S. Health-Care System

Employment-based Health Insurance (EBI) Is Incompatible With An Efficient, Affordable, Equitable Health Care System And Must Be Replaced By Market-Based Universal Health Insurance.

Extending The P4P Agenda, Part 1: How Medicare Can Improve Patient Decision Making And Reduce Unnecessary Care

Extending The P4P Agenda, Part 2: How Medicare Can Reduce Waste And Improve The Care Of The Chronically Ill

Fundamentally Changing The Way We Train Physicians

Fundamentally Changing The Way We Train Physicians

Integrated Delivery Systems: What They Do, What Has Blocked Them, Why We Need Them, And How To Get There from Here

Introductions for “Health Care Systems of the Future” Conference Sept. 26-27, 2008

Health Information Technology: A FewYears Of Magical Thinking?

"Never Pay Events": Informing Patients and Improving Care Delivery

Quality, Affordable Health Care For All: Moving Beyond The Employer-Based Health-Insurance System

Recapturing Health Care: From Reimbursement to Quality

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