The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes 
An Institute of Medicine Workshop Series
Sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Workshop #3: The Policy Agenda
September 9-10, 2009

A Learning Healthcare System Activity
IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine

The Policy Agenda  is the final meeting in the Roundtable’s three-part workshop series, The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes.  The series is exploring how U.S. per capita health spending might be lowered by 10% within 10 years.  The first workshop,  Understanding the Targets , identified key areas for decreasing inefficiency and waste; Strategies that Work, the second workshop, identified promising methods for achieving these cost savings, and the third and final meeting aims to explore the policy options available.