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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

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.

Prize Challenge

The conference will feature a “One-Year Challenge Prize” competition. A $20,000 prize will be awarded to the proposal that we feel will best accelerate our vision of developing health care systems of the future, based on quality and quality improvement. Proposals will be for tools that will enable data collection, integration, and/or visualization of information for feedback and learning. A prototype that illustrates the innovation and how it can be applied should be completed within 1 year. The investigators should be prepared to present their work at next year’s conference.

The tools do not need to be “high tech”; rather, we are interested in tools that identify important opportunities to measurably improve quality and that are concrete and feasible. We are looking for innovative ways to build quality and learning into the delivery of care. Possible examples include, but are by no means limited to, the following:

• Patient-friendly data capture interface
• Clinical dashboard to manage patients with multiple comorbidities
• Visualization tools to display health and/or treatments over time
• A program that automatically links eligible patients to open clinical trials

DUE DATE: Proposals are due by 11:59 pm on August 1, 2008. Please e-mail proposals and any supporting materials as Microsoft Word documents or .pdfs to challengeprize@pergrouplp.com.

WHO CAN APPLY: Applications will be accepted from individuals, public entities, or private companies. Applicants and applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.

WHAT IS REQUIRED: Interested parties must submit (1) an abstract or short overview of 300 words or less that provides a high-level summary of the proposed innovation and approach and (2) a 5-page proposal describing (a) the motivation for innovation and the problem that is being addressed (½ page), (b) the key participants and stakeholders and their relevant experience (1-1½ pages), (c) the scope of work (2-2½ pages), and (d) an evaluation plan (1 page). References, if needed, can be included and do not count as part of the page limit. Proposals can include a 5-page appendix for illustrations or other materials that illustrate the proposed tool.

Proposals can be at any premarket stage of development, from idea to prototype, and there is no preference for a particular stage of development. The applicant must state the stage of current development, available Web links, whether further description is available if requested, and whether the idea is currently funded.

Please include a resume, CV, or biosketch for each key participant in the project.

Proposals should be in 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins.

A deliverable prototype (which does not need to be functional) is required by the end of the prize year. The winners will present their results at the 2009 Health Care System of the Future Conference. The developer will keep all Intellectual Property related to or generated as a result of this prize. A budget is not required. We anticipate that the earliest start date for the prize will be October 15, 2008.  

REVIEW PROCESS: Proposals will be reviewed by members of the conference planning committee and an outside panel of judges that will include experts from venture capital, industry, and health care. Those who submit the top 3 proposals will be notified in early September. The lead investigator for the top 3 proposals will be invited to present his/her proposal in person to the judges in San Francisco on September 27, 2008. The winner will be selected and notified on that day. We will not provide any feedback on proposals that are not selected. We will not share proposals outside the review team. However, because we cannot completely ensure the privacy of submitted materials, please do not include anything that is proprietary or unpublished results that are not meant to be distributed.

If you have any questions, please e-mail them to challengeprize@pergrouplp.com.

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