Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Health Care Financing Review
Author: Status Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care, Cost of
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Research and Demonstration in Health Care Financing
Author: Best Care at Lower Cost
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309282810
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. The costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009-roughly $750 billion-was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances. About 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care. This book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.
Compendium of HHS Evaluation Studies
Author: HHS Evaluation Documentation Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Evaluated programs conducted under HHS. Arranged according to agency hierarchy. Entries give agency sponsor, project title, report title, performer, abstract, descriptors, status, availability, and other identifying information. Subject,sponsor, program indexes.
Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies
Author: HHS Evaluation Documentation Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies
Author: HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
Book Description
The Future of Public Health
Author: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public HealthPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309581907
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Health Status and Utilization
Author: Judith KasperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicaid
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Losing a million minds : confronting the tragedy of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428922822
Category : Alzheimer's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description