The Commonwealth Fund's 14th annual International Symposium on Health Care Policy, held last month, brought together health ministers and leading policy thinkers from across the industrialized world to explore ways of achieving a sustainable high-performing health care system. In a new blog post, Robin Osborn, M.B.A., vice president and director of The Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy and Innovation, reports on the symposium, where participants from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States examined approaches to such shared challenges as measuring and benchmarking outcomes and redesigning health care systems around the needs and preferences of patients.
