Princeton Conference XV (2008)
Can Payment and Other Innovations Improve the Quality and Value of Health Care?
May 27-28, 2008
The Fifteenth Princeton Conference was held at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ on May 28-29, 2008. This conference is the third in a series that Stuart Altman, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, and Chip Kahn, Federation of American Hospitals, have developed over the last four years. The Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, John Iglehart, Health Affairs, and the Federation of American Hospitals, along with a number of others, co-sponsored these events. The purpose of this year’s conference was to examine the potential effects of payment and non-payment innovations on improving the quality and value of health care.
The 2008 Princeton Conference examined ways to drive the delivery of care toward greater quality and value by evaluating a number of initiatives. The effort to get both the care and payment “right” is reflected in the spreading use of clinical care measurement and reporting, and pay-for-performance as well as Medicare payment reform. Non-payment related initiatives such as mandatory reporting requirements and the broader use of information technology targeted at increasing quality and value are appearing in numerous marketplaces. There were a total of 10 sessions, which included:
- Moving toward a higher quality, more efficient health care system
- Are the techniques with which we have been experimenting moving us towards our goals of improved quality and efficiency?
- Measures
- The right level of accountability
- International Innovations to Improve the Quality and Value of Health Care
- Transforming the Payment System
- Current Market Forces Influencing Improved Efficiencies
- Health Information Technology
- Where do we go from here?
Agenda
Princeton Conference XV Agenda
Speaker Bios
Princeton Conference XV Speaker Bios
Presentations
- Achieving Breakthroughs in Health Care Value Requires New Organizational Models
Janet Corrigan, Ph.D., MBA
President and CEO
National Quality Forum - Moving Toward Systemness: Creating Accountable Care Systems
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D.
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management
Dean, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley - The Pay for Performance Experiment: Have We Reached the Promised Land?
Cheryl L. Damberg, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
RAND
Kristiana Raube, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley - Beyond Pay for Performance: The Next Wave of Payment Reform in Health Care
Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard School of Public Health - Measures: The Heart and Battleground
Christopher Tompkins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University - Clinical Analytic Model
Stephen H. Bandeian, M.D.
Senior Staff Fellow
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality - Medicare Payment for High-Quality, Efficient Care
Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.
Leonard Schaeffer Senior Fellow and Director
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
The Brookings Institution - International Innovations to Improve the Quality and Value of Health Care:
The German Case
Reinhard Busse, Prof. Dr. med. MPH FFPH
Technische Universitaet
Berlin, Germany - Quality, Safety and Payment Structure: Clalit Health Services, Israel
Edna Bar-Ratson, MBA, MSc
Program Director, Hospital Accreditation
Clalit Health Services, Israel - Using Payment Policy to Transform the Health Care System
Stuart Guterman
Director, Program on Medicare's Future
The Commonwealth Fund - Consumer-Driven Health Care: Promise and Performance
James C. Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D.
President
Center for Studying Health System Change - Health Information Technology: Will It Improve Quality and Reduce Cost?
Paul G. Shekelle, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center
RAND
Princeton Conference XV Sponsors
