Author: Maine. Legislature. Joint Standing Committee on Business & CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allied health personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Alternative Methods of Payment for Health Care in Maine
Author: Maine. Legislature. Joint Standing Committee on Business & CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allied health personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Healthcare Imperative
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309144337
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.
Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies
Author: HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Medicaid Hospital Payment
Author: Jennifer BaldwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Monthly Checklist
Author: Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309377722
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Health Care Financing Review
Author: The rising cost of health care
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Status Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care, Cost of
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description