The Commonwealth Fund 2015 International Symposium on Health Care Policy Briefing Book

A.  Agenda

B.  List of Participants

C.  Participants’ Biographies

D. The Commonwealth Fund 2015 International Health Policy Survey In Ten Countries (Embargoed – Health Affairs article + chartpack to be distributed on Tuesday morning, December 8)

E. International Profiles of Health Care Systems – Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States

F. Multinational Comparisons of Health Systems Data, 2015

G. COMMISSIONED PAPERS AND COUNTRY INNOVATIONS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Panel I: National Health Policy Aimed at Bending the Cost Curve: What Works and What Doesn’t?
1. National Health Policy Reforms Aimed at Controlling Cost and Implications for Health System Efficiency and Equity
2. Leveraging the Social Determinants of Health: What Works?
3. The Role of Practitioner Motivation in Designing Provider Payment Reforms and Other Incentives

Panel II: Getting Value for Money: The Challenge of Eliminating Low Value Care
4. Can We Lower Low-Value Care? Policy Measures and Lessons in Australia, Canada, England, France, and Germany

Panel III: Frugal Innovation: Learning from Around the World
5. Translating a Low-Cost, High-Quality Multispecialty Hospital Model to New Environments: The Case of Narayana Health and Health City Cayman Islands
6. Bridging the Health Care Gap with a Phone Call: The MedicallHome and ConsejoSano Models
7. BasicNeeds: Applying Community Development Principles to Address Mental Health Challenges
8. Brazil’s Family Health Strategy
9. Gericare@North: Introducing Telemedicine to Skilled-Nursing Facilities in Singapore

Policy Roundtable: Adopting “Frugal Innovation” from Around the World
10. Translating Frugal Innovations Into the U.S. Health System

H. PARTICIPANTS’ CONTACT INFORMATION

I. RECENT COMMONWEALTH FUND PUBLICATIONS

Presentations

Presentation of the 2015 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Doctors

Panel I: National Health Policy Aimed at Bending the Cost Curve: What Works and What Doesn't?
Elias A. Mossialos
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Peter C. Smith

Panel II: Getting Value for Money: The Challenges of Eliminating Lowe Value Care
Reinhard Busse

Panel III: Frugal innovation: Learning from Around the World
Chandy Abraham
Pedro Yrigoyen
Joyce Kingori
Antonio Ribas
Betina Durovni
James Low