Hear the presentations and follow the slides from Breaking New Ground: State Strategies to Increase Value in the Health Care System, a State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Breakfast held February 3, 2009. Panelists were Trish Riley, Director, Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, Maine; Philip W. Magistro, Director, IT, Governor's Office of Health Care Reform, Pennsylvania; and Aaron McKethan, Ph.D., Research Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution. The event was sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, the Georgia Health Policy Center, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives.