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Physicians:
Physicians' Education Resource is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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Health Care Systems of the Future

JW Marriott San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Sep 26, 2008

Friday, Sep 26, 2008

   
7:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
  Welcome and Introduction
8:00 am How Do We Get From the Reimbursement Business to the Quality Business?
Laura Esserman
Evidence-Based Management: Sustaining Quality
Jeffrey Pfeffer
  Health Care in the United States: Barriers to Quality and How to Break Through
Moderator: Jeffrey Pfeffer
9:00 am Small-Area Variation and Implications for Clinical Decision Making
John E. Wennberg
9:30 am Using Data and Feedback to Improve Quality: Real-World Experiences in Creating Benchmarks
R. Adams Dudley
10:00 am Break
10:15 am The Geisinger System Experiment
Glenn Steele
10:45 am Improving Quality the DaVita Way
Joseph C. Mello
11:15 am NCI Initiative to Disseminate Tools for Clinical Research and Integrate Research and Clinical Care
Kenneth Buetow
11:45 am Moderated Panel Discussion
Moderator: Jeffrey Pfeffer
12:15 pm Lunch
  Organizing for Quality Improvement in Cancer
Moderator: Stephen M. Shortell
1:00 pm Organizing Practice Around Shared Decision Making
E. Dale Collins
1:20 pm Improving Outcomes in Oncology: Perspectives From the QOPI Project and NCCN
Peter Eisenberg, TBA
1:30 pm Using Community-Based Networks to Improve Quality
Linda Bosserman
2:00 pm Toward a Research/Care Continuum: The I-SPY Trial
Laura Esserman
2:20 pm UnitedHealthcare and the Trastuzumab Experience
Lee N. Newcomer
2:40 pm Moderated Panel Discussion
Moderator: Stephen M. Shortell
3:15 pm Break
  The Changing Role of Patients
Moderator: Diane C. Pinakiewicz
3:30 pm Patients as the Source of Medical Data: Lessons Learned From BreastCancerTrials.org
Elly Cohen
3:50 pm The Emerging Role of Personal Health Records
David Lansky
4:10 pm Tools for Patient-Centered Management
Matthew Sanders
4:15 pm Moderated Panel Discussion
Moderator: Diane C. Pinakiewicz
  A Culture of Learning in Health Care
Moderator: Debu Tripathy
4:50 pm Fundamentally Changing the Way We Train Physicians
Moderated Discussion: Carol Dweck Moderator: Debu Tripathy
5:30 pm Wrap Up and Closing Remarks
Laura Esserman, Debu Tripathy

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program
  2. Genentech BioOncology
  3. Pfizer Inc.
  5. QuantumLeap HealthCare Collaborative