The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes
An Institute of Medicine Workshop Series
Sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Workshop #3: The Policy Agenda
September 9-10, 2009
A Learning Healthcare System Activity
IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine
The Policy Agenda is the final meeting in the Roundtable’s three-part workshop series, The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes. The series is exploring how U.S. per capita health spending might be lowered by 10% within 10 years. The first workshop, Understanding the Targets , identified key areas for decreasing inefficiency and waste; Strategies that Work, the second workshop, identified promising methods for achieving these cost savings, and the third and final meeting aims to explore the policy options available.
