If we are to improve health care, we need effective ways to measure how health care providers deliver care. Speakers at this conference will assess how existing physician performance measurement tools operate and how we can improve their accuracy, reliability, transparency, and usefulness. For example, both the Government Accountability Office...

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

How can more accurate and actionable information about physicians improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care?

Will consumer-oriented health companies make doctors obsolete?

The lack of good information on providers' performance is an impediment to improving the affordability and quality of health care.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

This AEI event examined what can be learned from the research on geographic variation in health spending.

The existing regulatory process for medical products frustrates many; a nuanced solution--offering progressive rather than absolute approvals--represents a potentially attractive solution that might also stimulate innovation.