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With projections of nearly $2.5 trillion on spending for health care in 2009, the U.S. has the highest per capita health care costs of any industrialized nation. Increasing costs are reducing access to care and constitute an ever heavier burden on employers and consumers. Yet as much as 20 to 30 percent of these costs may be unnecessary, or even counterproductive, to improved health.
To facilitate public understanding and discussions of value in health care, including how to measure and increase that value, the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine held the workshop “Value in Health Care: Accounting for Cost, Quality, Safety, Outcomes, and Innovation” on November 17, 2008. This report summarizes the workshop discussions, which explore approaches to assessing and improving value, as well as near- and long-term strategies to align the system to better promote value.
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The Learning Healthcare System. Workshop Summary
The Roundtable serves as a neutral venue for cooperative work among key stakeholders on several dimensions: to help transform the availability and use of the best evidence for the collaborative health care choices of each patient and provider; to drive the process of discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care; and, ultimately, to ensure innovation, quality, safety, and value in health care.
Released: March 30, 2007
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