Accelerating Health Care Innovation to Achieve System-Wide Impact
With U.S. health care expenditures projected to double by 2035, reforming payment and delivery systems is essential to reining in costs and achieving higher-value care. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMI)—created by the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—has the potential to accelerate, optimize and speed health care payment and delivery innovation.
On October 18, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings hosted a forum focused on key themes for accelerating health care innovation, including the importance of strategic public and private collaboration and alignment of investments to effect system-wide improvements in payment and delivery. Following keynote remarks by Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, experts discussed methods to spur rapid identification, execution and evaluation of promising payment and delivery reform models, as well as issues surrounding CMI implementation.
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Agenda
12:00 PM -- Introduction
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
12:15 PM -- Panel I: Evaluation and Implementation for System-Wide Impact
Allen Dobson
President, North Carolina Community Care Network
Allan Korn
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Moderator: Aaron McKethan
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Richard Gilfillan
Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Polly Bednash
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Lisa Suennen
Co-Founder and Managing Member, Psilos Group
1:15 PM -- Keynote: Overview of CMI and Its Role in Broader Health Reform
Donald Berwick
Administrator
1:45 PM -- Panel II: Federal Leadership for System-Wide Impact
Jeff Kang
Chief Medical Officer, CIGNA Corporation
Jason Hwang
Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute
Dana Safran
Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
2:50 PM -- Closing Remarks
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
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