2015 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer®

March 26 - 31, 2015

Description: In spite of countless health care reform efforts over many decades, uneven quality, frequent errors, and high and rising costs continue to plague the U.S. and countries around the globe. The status quo is untenable, and everyone—providers, health plans, employers, governments, and most of all, patients—will suffer if we fail to fundamentally change our approach. Solving our health care crisis begins with getting all stakeholders to agree on a single overarching goal: improving the quality of care delivered for each dollar spent. Competition has failed in health care for the simple reason that it is based upon entirely wrong metrics. We must reorient health care around value for patients, rather than current drivers like geography or the discounts negotiated by insurers. Only then can we create a system that delivers sustained improvements in quality and efficiency.