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...

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

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

Will consumer-oriented health companies make doctors obsolete?

How can the health-care system best be reformed to benefit consumers and providers alike?

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