Roundtable: Improving Health Care ‘Systemness’: A Look at the Evidence and Policy Implications

August 7, 2007, Washington, DC

Co-Sponsored by:
The Commonwealth Fund, the Council of Accountable Physician Practices, and the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy

Meeting Overview:
This roundtable convened public and private sector professionals to discuss the policy options that are available to promote better quality and efficiency through “systemness” – both real and virtual.

Goals:

• To identify policy and purchaser interventions that would encourage delivery system improvement through real and virtual organization;
• To determine which elements of groups and systems can and should be adopted in the less-organized sector; and,
• To assess the new and rapidly growing body of research regarding the quality and efficiency of physician groups and organized health care delivery systems relative to the disaggregated, solo- and small-group practice setting.
  
  

Materials:

Participant List

Agenda