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The U.S. health care system is large, dynamic, complex, and multifaceted. It consists of many participants—including doctors, patients, hospital administrators, insurers, health product companies, and regulators—who have vital roles. Although each of these groups seeks to improve patient health and well-being, they often work in unassociated or fragmented ways that compromise the quality and value of care. The IOM hosted a workshop that brought together stakeholders to discuss opportunities and cooperative strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care throughout the nation.
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Patients Charting the Course: Citizen Engagement in the Learning Health System - Workshop Summary
As past, current, or future patients, the public should be the health care system’s unwavering focus and serve as change agents in its care. Taking this into account, the quality of health care should be judged not only by whether clinical decisions are informed by the best available scientific evidence, but also by whether care is tailored to a patient’s individual needs and perspectives. However, too often it is provider preference and convenience, rather than those of the patient, that drive what care is delivered. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop to assess the prospects for improving health and lowering costs by advancing patient involvement in the elements of a learning health system.
Released: October 3, 2011
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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.
Released: July 25, 2011
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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.
Released: July 8, 2011
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