To effectively address the nation’s health-care crisis, it will take more
than insurance reform. It will require completely redesigning the way health care is delivered. The challenge is to increase access and improve quality while simultaneously reducing costs.

In communities throughout the United States, providers and institutions are pioneering innovative new models of delivery, and they’re seeing success in their individual areas. The purpose of this symposium is to bring these pioneers and innovative minds together, to learn what works in health-care delivery, to determine how to dessiminate these best practices thereby initiating an effort to redesign the American health-care system.

Keynote
A Healthy Future: Re-imaging Health-Care Delivery

Panel Discussions

• In Short Supply: Increasing Access to Primary Care Amid A Shortage of Health Professionals

• Innovative Primary Care Models, Training the Right People for the Right Tasks

• Innovative Models in Home Care, Skilled Nursing & Telemedicine

• Global to Local: Can Strategies Used in Developing Nations Work Here at Home?

• Role Models (Domestic): Learning from Mayo, Intermountain & Other Effective Health Care

• Role Models (International): Learning from Health-Care Systems Around the Globe

• The Vision for Electronic Health Records

• Health & Wellness for All: Addressing Disparities in Community Wellness

• Closing the Gap: Creating Equity in Outcomes (and Payments) Throughout the Country

• End-of-Life Care: Beyond the Death Panels; Honoring the wishes of the dying and standardizing care at the end of life

Evening Public Lecture
• Seattle Arts and Lectures Event