Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, Director of Health Policy Research, CECS, Professor of Medicine, Community and Health Dartmouth Medical Center, Co-Director, VA Outcomes

      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Discuss recent evidence on the relationship between spending andquality that reveal that, within US health care, more is not necessarily better.
• Estimate the magnitude of savings that could be achieved if all health care organizations achieved levels of performance found at exemplary, benchmark institutions.
• Describe tools and data available through the Dartmouth Atlas ofHealth Care that can support local benchmarking by providing hospital-specific information on relative performance in the care of patients with serious chronic illness.