After the scene-setting from Dr. Cortese and Korsmo, a panel discussion ensued, in which they were joined by Congressman Ron Kind, who represents western Wisconsin in the U.S. House; Mary Jo Werner (with the Wipfli accounting firm), and Rusty Cunningham (Publisher, LaCrosse Tribune).
Congressman Kind raised concerns about IT innovation, which is exciting, but said proprietary [...]
Denis Cortese, M.D., Mayo Clinic president and CEO, and Jeff Korsmo, the Chief Administrative Officer for Mayo Clinic Rochester and Director of the Health Policy Center, followed the participant voting with an overview of the HPC activities from the last couple of years.
Why is Mayo Clinic engaging in this? Demographics alone will force Medicare reform, [...]
Part of the special contribution of the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center’s approach to health reform is its insistence on bringing the patient perspective to the discussion. That’s why the Your Voice, New Vision trailer is in La Crosse today, giving patients the opportunity to share their stories and perspectives.
The luncheon program today also is [...]
The Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center is taking its show on the road today, with a Leadership Luncheon on Health Care Reform at the Radisson in LaCrosse, Wisc.
The Health Policy Center held its 2008 National Symposium on Health Care Reform in early March, and now the HPC is seeking deeper input into its recommendations by [...]
At the 2008 Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform, a panel of expert guests joined with representatives of the three remaining major-party presidential candidates to discuss how the candidates’ health reform proposals coincide with or differ from the principles developed through the symposia and policy forums convened through the Mayo Clinic Health Policy [...]
Today’s New York Times has an editorial entitled “Quality Care at Bargain Prices” that focuses on the findings from the most recently updated Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. The editorial concludes:
Reducing the cost of medical care will require changing longstanding habits — no easy feat. It may not happen until the medical profession reaches consensus [...]
Denis Cortese, M.D., Mayo Clinic’s president and CEO, was featured in an extended interview last Sunday in the Commentary section of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Here’s an excerpt:
Q: THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM: CRISIS OR NOT?
A: To the extent that people say the system is broken, I would reject that as a too-simple thought. There is [...]
Mayo Clinic president and CEO Denis Cortese, M.D., will be the featured guest on a C-SPAN call-in program on Friday, March 21, 2008. The 30-minute program, which coincides with Dr. Cortese’s speech at the National Press Club later in the day, begins at 9:30 a.m. EDT.
As with his National Press Club speech, Dr. Cortese [...]
Denis Cortese, M.D., Mayo Clinic’s president and chief executive officer, will be the featured speaker on Friday, March 21 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cortese’s speech will begin at 1 p.m. ET and will be entitled “Creating a Health Care System That Works for Americans.” He will address the need for health [...]
The goal of the 2008 Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform was to identify and prioritize concrete action steps, for both the private sector and government, that would help create a high-performance health care system.
More than 400 participants worked together to develop a list of proposed action steps, and then voted on which [...]
