News
Health factory of ideas: Entrepreneurs forming think tank
Local officials often refer to Nashville as the Silicon Valley of health
care, but Vanderbilt leaders and corporate leaders want to expand the city's
persona into an idea factory and laboratory for testing solutions to the
nation's health care problems. Nashville Business Journal. Nashville, TN
12.09.05 [article | PDF ]
HCSG Reception in Washington
Senator Bill Frist, Senator Lamar Alexander and Congressman Jim Cooper hosted
a launch reception of the Health Care Solutions Group at the US Capitol
Building in Washington on Monday, October 24, 2005. 10.24.05 [view
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National health group to form in Nashville
A joint venture between Nashville Health Care Council and Vanderbilt University
Medical Center — working with some of the top public and private
officials nationwide — is creating a new innovative organization
to solve many of the lingering problems facing the U.S. health care system.
The City Paper. Nashville, TN. 10.10.05 [article]
Press Releases
Health Care Solutions Group Convenes at First Summit
A group of key health care industry leaders from across the country convened
in Nashville for the first summit of the Health Care Solutions Group, a
new “think and act” tank formed to address the nation’s
growing health care crisis.
Based on input from health care leaders, policy experts and government leaders across the country, The Group focused its first Summit meeting on the impact of current “pay for performance models” have on health care quality and costs. Nashville, TN, 03.16.2006 [article]
Health Care Industry Leaders Launch “Solutions Group”
to Address U.S. Health Care Challenges
Some of health care's biggest names throughout the U.S. have joined forces
to launch The Health Care Solutions Group. A unique blend of health care
experts, policy makers and representatives of various stakeholder groups,
the Health Care Solutions Group will use their collective experiences to
design and test real world improvements to the U.S. health care system.
Nashville, TN, Washington, D.C. 10.25.2005 [article]
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