PAST EVENTS
June 09, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 invested $1.1 billion in federal initiatives to begin the important and necessary work of comparative effectiveness research (CER), a key building block in health care reform. A forum hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and The Hamilton Project addressed many of the key questions surrounding CER, and featured remarks from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
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June 02, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
On June 2, Christina Romer, chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, joined Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform director Mark McClellan, Harvard economist David Cutler and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin to discuss the economic case for health care reform and its potential impact on the U.S. economy.
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May 20, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
As the Obama administration looks to reform health care, encouraging signs point to the potential for health IT to play a significant role in changing the current system. At a forum on May 20, hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings in cooperation with the Markle Foundation, experts addressed strategies for coordinating recently enacted health IT incentives with other promising approaches to improving health care delivery.
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May 04, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Reuters
With more than $19 billion planned in new federal expenditures on health information technology, the Obama administration is taking serious steps towards modernizing the U.S. health care system to reduce health care costs and medical errors. Brookings hosted a discussion on how to bring the benefits of information technology to health care in the United States.
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April 27, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Academic medical centers (AMCs) have long been integral to developing innovative treatments and assuring access to care for Americans who need the most help. The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings is launching a two-year project examining challenges facing the nation’s AMCs, particularly those in urban areas that serve a disproportionate share of lower-income and uninsured patients.
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March 11, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
As Congress and the Obama administration begin to push for health care reform, they will have to address realigning provider payment incentives to drive changes in the way health care is delivered in the United States. A policy forum on March 11 at the Brookings Institution focused on the concept of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) as a means to achieving a higher-value health care system.
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January 16, 2009,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier
Almost 50 million Americans are uninsured, the cost of public and private health insurance is rising and the quality of care is uneven at best. On January 16, Henry Aaron offered a public memo to President-elect Obama with recommendations on how to deal with the challenges that will confront him in reforming health care. The memo is the twelfth of 12 Brookings memos on the most crucial public policy priorities facing the new president.
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December 17, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Numerous organizations have expressed interest in establishing a Long-Term Care Quality Alliance in an effort to achieve sustainable, high-value, and person-focused long-term care in the United States. Based on an initial meeting and subsequent discussions with a wide range of stakeholders, there is consensus that the Alliance should focus on implementing or speeding efforts to improve quality in long-term care and related areas at the person level, regardless of setting.
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December 16, 2008,
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
A day-long public workshop on FDA's Sentinel Initiative was held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration and the eHealth Initiative Foundation and convened by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution.
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November 24, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Mark McClellan, Carolyn Clancy and other distinguished experts addressed current opportunities to accelerate the adoption and integration of health IT, with an emphasis on how it can lead to higher quality care at lower costs.
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