Architecture of High Value Health Care

Overview

What you will study

The cost of healthcare has risen to unacceptable levels. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, healthcare expenditures for 2019 are projected to be $3.4 trillion. Notably, the Institute of Medicine estimates that approximately $750 billion spent on healthcare in 2009 was "wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud and other problems, and more recently estimated of wasted healthcare spending approach $1.2 trillion. 

The mission of the Architecture of High Value Health Care conference offered by Johns Hopkins University is to share leading practices and provide immersive skill-building experience around value-based care. Poster and podium abstract presentations from medical centers across the US and beyond will detail initiatives that improve health care quality and safety while reducing costs of care for patients. Goals include investigation of outcomes to ensure that practice refinement maintains or improves diagnostic and therapeutic efficacy and determining the best methodologies to improve the value of care providers deliver. Performance improvement guidance and support are provided through focused workshops and round-table information sharing sessions monitored by national experts.