2008 - From Rhetoric to Reality: Advancing Patient-Centered Care
We convened 150 health leaders, physicians, nurses, researchers, payers, and individuals with compelling experiences as patients and family caregivers to discuss a complex and critical issue: how to achieve patient-centered care. Participants grappled with defining patient-centered care - examining barriers and identifying affordable and sustainable strategies to achieve this goal. Patient-Centered Care: A Vision to Guide Health System Reform is a summary of this meeting.
2007 - Coordination of Care: Missed Opportunity?
We convened more than 120 health care leaders to identify successful models, organizational strategies and structural and financial changes needed for the health care system to improve care coordination. From Forum to Function: Bringing Care Coordination Home (pdf) provides a summary of the Forum’s goals and how Forum participants put recommendations from the Forum into action.
2006 - Efficiency in Health Care: Is There a Shared Vision?
As health care costs continue to rise, "efficiency" is increasingly at the center of national policy discussions. Thought leaders at this Forum discussed and developed workable "real time" recommendations and strategies to achieve greater efficiency and reduce waste, Taming Health Care Inefficiency: Physicians and Others Explore Solutions (pdf).
2005 - Maintenance of Certification and Pay-for-Performance
Participants at the inaugural ABIM Foundation Forum addressed the implementation of Maintenance of Certification and the issue of pay-for-performance. Forum participants discussed how to enhance health care system performance and agreed that physician participation is essential. Additionally, they recognized that pay-for-performance programs might enhance these systems and increase quality and efficiency.