Everyone expects quality from the health system. However, large deficiencies in efficiency and effectiveness remain unchanged. Despite
today's high level of information sharing, large variations remain in how medicine is practiced. One leading study showed that only 55% of
Americans receive the recommended treatment for their diagnosis. The public-private system offers many opportunities to create incentives
toward broader and quicker diffusion of best practices. Today’s debate increasingly revolves around how this impacts value and how tools such
as comparative effectiveness studies and value-based purchasing can be used to direct providers, patients and payers to treatments that offer
the best value.
This degree of change session will focus on how reaching a consensus on what we want to get out of our healthcare system and how
public-private efforts can dovetail and build on each other to get us there.
