Coordinating public & private sector efforts to improve healthcare quality & performance

Improvements in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency require the coordinated involvement and contributions of diverse stakeholder groups, including government agencies, NGOs, professional associations and communities, healthcare delivery organisations and others. Each of these groups has its own constituencies, goals and constraints, and reconciling these to achieve optimal coordination is challenging. Dr Brian Mittman will introduce key challenges encountered by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and other large reform-oriented delivery systems in the US, and will discuss strategies employed to successfully overcome selected challenges as well as barriers still to be addressed.