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Value in Health Care: Accounting for Cost, Quality, Safety, Outcomes, and Innovation. Workshop Summary

Released:: December 16, 2009
Type:: Workshop Summary
Topics:: Biomedical and Health Research, Health Services, Coverage, and Access, Quality and Patient Safety
Activity:: Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care
Board:: Executive Office

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With projections of nearly $2.5 trillion on spending for health care in 2009, the U.S. has the highest per capita health care costs of any industrialized nation. Increasing costs are reducing access to care and constitute an ever heavier burden on employers and consumers. Yet as much as 20 to 30 percent of these costs may be unnecessary, or even counterproductive, to improved health.

To facilitate public understanding and discussions of value in health care, including how to measure and increase that value, the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine held the workshop “Value in Health Care: Accounting for Cost, Quality, Safety, Outcomes, and Innovation” on November 17, 2008. This report summarizes the workshop discussions, which explore approaches to assessing and improving value, as well as near- and long-term strategies to align the system to better promote value.

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Learning What Works: Infrastructure Required for Comparative Effectiveness Research - Workshop Summary It is essential for patients and clinicians to know which treatments work best for whom if they are to make informed, collaborative care decisions. Despite this need, only a small fraction of health-related expenditures in the U.S. have been devoted to comparative effectiveness research. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the IOM’s Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop to discuss capacity priorities to build the evidence base necessary for care that is more effective and delivers higher value for patients.
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Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future - Workshop Summary Lessons from engineering have the potential to improve both the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery. The fundamental notion of a high-performing healthcare system—one that increasingly is more effective, more efficient, safer, and higher quality—is rooted in continuous improvement principles that medicine shares with engineering. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the IOM’s Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop, jointly with the National Academy of Engineering, on lessons from systems and operations engineering that could be applied to health care.
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