"Measuring up: Improving Health Systems Performance in OECD Countries" - Conference presentations

Session 1 - Performance measurement and performance management: An overview of issues and challenges

• Measuring health system performance: Problems and Opportunities in the Era of Assessment and Accountability
  C. David Naylor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Karey Iron and Kiren Handa, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
• Performance measurement and improvement: issues and challengesJeremy Hurst, Head of the Health Policy Unit, OECD Secretariat

Session 2 - Performance measurement and performance management from the perspective of various actors: A review of experiences in selected countries

• Improving Value for Money in the UK NHS: Performance Measurement and Improvement in a Centralised System
  Clive Smee, Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Health, UK
• Improving Accountability in a Decentralized System
  Nina Rehnqvist Deputy Director General The National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
• Can a Tulip become a Rose? The Dutch Route of Guided Self-Regulation Towards a Community Based Integrated Health Care System.
  Niek Klazinga, Diana Delnoij, and Isik Kulu-Glasgow, Academic Medical Centre - University of Amsterdam
• Providing Performance Information for Consumers
  Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc and Thomas W. Reilly, Ph. D., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Session 3 - Performance measurement activities at the international level: How can international comparisons assist national policy-making?

• Can We Open the Black Box of Health Systems? What can be learned from Using a Disease- based Approach in Understanding the Performance of Health Care Systems Across Countries
  Stéphane Jacobzone, Health Policy Unit, OECD Secretariat
• The Evolution of WHO's Approach to Health System Performance Assessment
  David B. Evans, Director, Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy (GPE)

Session 5 - Towards integrated and coherent health information systems for performance monitoring: the Canadian experience

• Health Information for Performance Measurement in Canada -- Towards Coherence and Integration
  Michael Wolfson, Statistics Canada and Richard Alvarez, CIHI
• Response to Michael Wolfson and Richard Alvarez's presentation: Towards integrated and coherent health information systems for performance monitoring: the Canadian experience
  Andrew Podger, Secretary, Commonweath Department of Health and Aged Care, Australia

Session 6 - Building and implementing measurement frameworks

• Monitoring Performance, Improving Health: Enhancing Health Services' Impact on Population Health
  Denis Roy, Fred Paccaud et Richard Lessard
• From Understanding Health Risks to Improving Population Health: An International Perspective on the Role of Public Health
  L. F. Berkman, Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, Katrina Abuabara, Stanford University
• Counting and accounting for public health program performance in a Federal system
  Jan Bennett, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care Australia
• Measuring hospital quality of care: the state of the art What information should be made available to the public?
  Gérard de Pouvourville and Etienne Minvielle, CHEAR, INSERM/ CNRS, France
• Measuring and Improving Patients' Experience: How Can We Make Health Care Systems Work for Patients?
  Angela Coulter, Chief Executive, Picker Institute, Europe
• Equity in the use of physician services: has equal treatment for equal need been achieved?
  Eddy van Doorslaer, Professor of Health Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (NL)
• Composite Indicators of System Performance
  Peter C. Smith, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
• Measuring the Quality of Long-Term Care in Institutional and Community Settings
  Naoki Ikegami, Department of Hospital and Medical Administration, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan and John Hirdes, Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Session 7 - Applying indicators to improve health system performance

• Applying Performance Indicators to Health Systems Improvement
  Sheila Leatherman, President, Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation, Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, United States, and Senior Advisor, The Nuffield Trust, London, England

Session 10: Conference Summary/Highlights

• Rapporteur's Report
  Jean-François Girard, Conseiller d'Etat et Président, Institut de recherche pour le développement, France and
  Etienne Minvielle, CHEAR, INSERM/CNRS, France