CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Healthcare

Keystone helps industry, government, communities and advocates work together to find common ground on needed adjustments to our nation’s healthcare infrastructure – from access to insurance coverage to effective communication with patients, from quality of care to the rights of both patients and practitioners. Frequently, dialogue focuses not only on what policies are needed but also on how the costs and benefits should be shared.

Projects include:

Health Reform Dialogue (2008 - 2009)
Keystone facilitated a series of meetings among a multi-stakeholder group of national organizations representing healthcare professionals and providers, healthcare advocates, business and labor to develop consensus comprehensive reform proposals. The resulting recommendations will be submitted to the new U.S. Administration and Congress in early 2009. The recommendations are expected to include proposals for increasing healthcare coverage and access, improving the quality of healthcare services, and decreasing the rate of growth in healthcare costs.
Contact:	Peter Adler

Action Plan For the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information (1996)
The Keystone Center was asked by the Honorable Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to facilitate a mandated 120-day collaborative process to develop a long range action plan for distributing useful information to individuals receiving new prescriptions. The Secretary accepted the plan developed by the multi-sector, cross-disciplinary participant group and set the new program into action. The plan is aimed at improving patient understanding of prescription drugs and reducing the misuses of medications that result in costly hospitalizations, estimated at $20 billion per year.
Final report:	Action Plan for the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information
Contact:	Judy O'Brien