Charting the Future of Health Care

The Abramson Family Center For The Future of Health is dedicated to accomplishing the research, prescribing the action, and training the people to provide Houston and its surrounding areas with the finest health care available in the world--now and in the future.

The center focuses on the work that can be reasonably expected to define the health care education of this century:

1. The free flow of information and the people who manage it.
2. Shared responsibility for decision making among patients, physicians, and families.
3. Easing disparities in health care in communities around the world.
4. The development of new professions that support informed consumers of health care.

The Center is a collaboration of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, The College of Technology at the University of Houston, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Further information about the principles and background of the center can be found at the www.theabramsoncenter.org web site.