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June 4, 2009

Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQI)

A Strategy That Works For Improving Health Care Quality & Cost

Health Care Quality Symposium

Can quality improvement and cost savings go hand in hand? Michigan physicians and hospitals, working together in Collaborative Quality Initiatives sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network (BCBSM/BCN), are achieving outstanding results in both. Learn how these groundbreaking initiatives are saving health care dollars and improving health care quality for the entire state. Leaders from BCBSM and the University of Michigan Health System share results and describe the model behind these powerful collaborations.

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May 9, 2008

Atul Gawande

Free Public Lecture

Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande, M.D., is nationally known for his writing in the New Yorker, New York Times and Slate.com and his books on health care quality, patient safety, and the culture of medicine. His most recent book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, is a New York Times bestseller and one of Amazon.com's ten best books of 2007.

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May 2, 2008

Covering the Uninsured

Who has the will and who has the way?

Panel Discussion on the Uninsured

CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips convenes a panel of experts to explore the problem of America's 47 million uninsured. Panelists Catherine McLaughlin, Professor of Health Management & Policy and director of the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, U-M School of Public Health; Kevin Seitz, executive vice president of Health Care Value Enhancement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; and Ellen Rabinowitz, executive director of the Washtenaw Health Plan share their views and join Udow-Phillips to respond to audience questions. Tracy Davis of the Ann Arbor News moderates.

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