Mayo Clinic Health Policy Forum II

Improving Productivity in Health Care: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Value

Jan. 22-24, 2007
Cambridge, Mass.
Co-host: Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program
Co-Chairs: Robert Smoldt and Jerome Grossman, M.D.
News release
Participants

Agenda

Monday, Jan. 22

6:00 p.m. - Reception and Dinner

Tuesday, Jan. 23

7:30 - 8 a.m. - Breakfast
8 - 8:20 a.m. - Welcome and discussion of Policy Center, Policy Forum objectives
8:20 - 8:40 a.m. - Background on effectiveness and efficiency
8:40 - 8:45 a.m. - Introduce Susan Dentzer
8:45 - 11 a.m. - Effective and appropriate care
11 - 11:30 a.m. - Break
11:30 - 12:30 p.m. - Lunch

12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Efficiency and productivity
2:30 - 3 p.m. - Break
3 - 5:00 p.m. - Developing new models of care delivery

Wednesday, Jan. 24

7:30 - 8 a.m. - Breakfast
8 - 8:30 a.m. - Opening comments
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Do we know what we know?
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. - Break
10:45 - 12 p.m. - Actionable principles to achieve an efficient and effective delivery system
12 - Closing Luncheon

Suggested Readings

'A Deficiency Of Will And Ambition': A Conversation With Donald Berwick
Health Affairs 24 (2005): Web Exclusive (published online 12 January 2005; 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.1)
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The Delivery System Matters
Health Affairs, 24, no. 1 (2005): 18-28
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The Promises And Pitfalls Of Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Affairs, 24, no. 1 (2005): 18-28
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Five Years After To Err Is Human: What Have We Learned?
JAMA. 2005;293:2384-2390
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Efficiency in the Health Care Industries: A View From the Outside
JAMA. 2005;294:490-492
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Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership
National Academy of Engineering
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End-Of-Life Care At Academic Medical Centers: Implications For Future Workforce Requirements
Health Affairs, 25, no. 2 (2006): 521-531
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The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States
New England Journal of Medicine Volume 348:2635-2645, June 26, 2003, Number 26
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