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International Learning about Improving the Value and Effectiveness of Primary Care (I LIVE PC)

The I LIVE PC Conference brought together high level delegations of academics, researchers, and on-the-ground clinical innovators from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States to discuss recent health reforms in all countries, with the goal of learning from each other about innovations that work.

Purposes:
1)  To glean lessons for the United States from other developed countries that may assist in moving the U.S. to a patient-centered, high value health care system with primary care as its foundation.

2)  Defining a package of transformational options and a policy roadmap as a guide for public and private policy makers.

Products:
1. Special issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
2. Policy Roadmap/Transformation Package for the U.S.
3. Commonwealth International Issue Brief

Access meeting materials
Video of the conference is available on the AHRQ website. 

May 2011