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Strategic Methods

 

Policy analysis

July 29, 2010
America needs real health-care reform; Canada & US should move away from fee-for-service and start integrating care: US Gov. Howard Dean tells Foundation Symposium

Fee-for-service and pay-for-performance models can drive inflationary health-care costs and do nothing to advance quality, warned U.S. Governor Howard Dean at a symposium hosted April 26 by The Change Foundation, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The invitational event, Tools for Change: Funding Levers & Incentives for Integrating Patient Care in Ontario, engaged about 100 health-care stewards and stakeholders in tackling a central question: how do we create a system of funding and incentives that best enables providers to achieve seamless, coordinated care for patients across all settings?

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April 26, 2010
Tools for Change: Levers and Incentives for Integrating Patient Care in Ontario Symposium

This event features case studies, background papers and presentations from the day.

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February 9, 2010
The Change Foundation & The Commonwealth Fund put their minds to improving primary care on both sides of the border during 1st Canada-US policy exchange

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