About Healthcare 2008
The Yale Healthcare Conference is a joint effort between the School of Management and the Health Professions Schools at Yale University that aims to bring together professionals, academics, and students to engage in an instructive conversation concerning current healthcare issues. This will be the 4th consecutive year and we expect the conference to continue growing to over 350 participants.
The planned title and theme for the Healthcare 2008 Conference is Whose Healthcare is it Anyway? Understanding the Patient as a Consumer. This conference will explore the idea of the patient as the central stakeholder in healthcare. The theme will frame a variety of healthcare issues around how the healthcare industry identifies and meets the needs of consumers (patients). Discussion will focus on issues related to:
The theme will also consider how consumers can identify their needs, signal their needs to the industry, and have their needs met. As each healthcare sector has a different take on the needs of consumers - and how to meet them - this framework will allow us to fill the day with a variety of topical discussions.
The ultimate goal of the conference is to advance our understanding of how healthcare can address consumer needs as specifically related to the following questions:
- How does the healthcare industry identify and meet the needs ofconsumers?
- What innovative solutions addressing consumer needs have been proposed
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Previous Healthcare Conferences at Yale
Healthcare 2007
Excellence, Efficiency, and Economics: What Healthcare Can Learn from Other Industries. This multi-disciplinary forum offered insights into the increasingly complex problems that are emerging in healthcare and the opportunity to incorporate strategies from other industries into solutions to address these challenges.
Learn more by reviewing the HC2007 website.
Download the full HC 2007 Program.
Healthcare 2006
The Political and Ethical Challenges to Advancing Healthcare Quality. This conference explored the concept of delivering and measuring quality in healthcare and how systemic issues played a role quality delivery.
Learn more by reviewing the HC2006 website.
Download the full HC 2006 Program.