Past Events

The COVID-19 crisis is presenting a potential breaking point for our entire health care system and those who rely on it for needed care. 

The Practice Transformation Initiative (PTI) was a four-year initiative that engaged 4,800 clinicians statewide contracted with provider organizations to improve measures of cost, quality and patient experience.

In 2010-2011, the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care (CEPC), an organization that identifies, develops, tests and disseminates innovations to improve primary care, conducted an intensive study on existing high performing practices and clinics to identify similarities in how they deliver primary care.

PBGH and Trucker Huss, together, shared “transparent thinking” on PBM management. This group discussion featured Mary Powell (Trucker Huss) and Lauren Vela (PBGH), who […]

In the second of CQC’s “Best Practices in Oncology” webinar series, guest speaker, Mark Pegram, MD, from the Standford School of Medicine, discusses how the availability of new molecular approaches allow us to identify vast numbers of different genetic alterations in each malignancy enabling oncologist to employ biomarkers for optimization of cancer patients’ treatment.

In the fourth of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Redwing Keyssar, RN, of Jewish Family & Children’s Services discusses the difference between hospice and palliative care and “normalizing” the conversation about serious illness.

Sameer Amin, MD, of HealthCare Partners presents on appropriate use and innovations in interventional cardiology, particularly on the medical and interventional treatment of coronary artery and valvular disease.

In the third of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Nick Bott, PsyD, of Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) discusses challenges of diagnosis, caregiving, and hospitalization for persons with dementia and how high quality care can reduce costs.

Menacham Wakslak, MD, of The Heart Group presents on electrophysiology disorders and the medical and interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia, and implanted cardiac devices.

In the second of CQC’s “Medically Complex Care” webinar series, guest speaker Judith Hibbard, PhD, MPH, Professor of Health Policy at the University of Oregon, discusses interventions that increase patient activation, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce health care costs.