Monthly Archives: April 2009

Medical and Health Care Education Reform Symposium

Mayo Clinic’s National Symposium on Medical and Health Care Education Reform is entering Day 2 with continuing animated discussion about the possibilities for reforming the education system to train a work force that will sustain patient-centered health care reform.
Summaries and archived Web casts for Day 1 can be seen at http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthpolicycenter.
Team work and interdisciplinary education [...]

National Symposium on Medical and Health Care Education Reform Starts Monday

Check in on Monday beginning at 8 a.m. CDT for periodic updates and session summaries from the Medical and Health Care Education Symposium. You can also follow each session on Twitter by looking for MayoClinicHPC or #healthedreform. We will be “tweeting” each session and then providing session summaries on this blog.
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Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center Goes to California

Leaders from Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center partnered with the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley and the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association to host a conference of health care providers in the California region to learn how the HPC cornerstones resonate with the issues faced in California.
Jeff Korsmo, Executive Director of [...]

Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center Participates with Hope Street Group

The Hope Street Group this week released its “Health Care Agenda for an Opportunity Economy,” a core set of reform principles developed by its Bipartisan Working group. The Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center participated with Hope Street Group in developing these principles, which were sent in a letter to President Obama.
As Jeff Korsmo, executive director [...]

Creating Value and Paying for It

There are many elements to health care reform, but underlying everything is the issue of value. If value isn’t created in the system, health care reform will not benefit patients. What do we mean by value? Denis Cortese, M.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic, explains what value is in this video.
Hand-in-hand with creating value, [...]