Hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings in collaboration with

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

The Beacon Community Program - a major project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) - provides funding to 17 selected communities throughout the United States that have made inroads in developing secure, private, and accurate systems of electronic health record adoption and health information exchange. The Beacon Program supports these communities to improve care coordination, increase quality of care, and slow health care spending growth.

This half-day meeting will feature keynote remarks from Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Joseph McCannon, Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Group Director, Learning and Diffusion, Innovation Center, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In addition, the event will highlight various Beacon Community accomplishments and plans for upcoming years, share health IT implementation strategies to accelerate clinical transformation, and communicate how various communities are advancing broader health care reform efforts. Presenters will focus on how health IT and related delivery system improvements are being utilized to increase care coordination and accountability in order to demonstrate feasible paths to higher-quality and lower-cost health care.

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Agenda
Bios
James Walker Handout
Beacon Community Information