... on Evidence-Based Medicine xiContents Summary 11 The Changing Nature of Health Care 33 Introduction, 33 Evidence-based medicine and the IOM, 35 Common themes from the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting, ... distinguished health professionals as well as researchers and leadership from the fields of medicine and health care; and, the IOM annual meeting provides the op-portunity for IOM members and other guests ... Studies and Economic Studies of the Brookings Institution, and Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, opened the meeting...