The healthcare imperative lowering costs and improving outcomes : workshop series summary
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
National Academies Press
c2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Learning healthcare system series
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| Beschreibung: | Summarizes workshops convened in May, July, September, and December 2009 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care (formerly the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine), to explore the sources and implications of waste and excess cost in health care, as well as strategies and policies necessary to address these issues Includes bibliographical references SECTION I -- EXCESSIVE HEALTHCARE COSTS: The healthcare imperative -- Unnecessary services -- Inefficiently delivered services -- Excess administrative costs -- Prices that are too high -- Missed prevention opportunities -- SECTION II -- STRATEGIES THAT WORK: Strategies that work -- Knowledge enhancement -- Care culture and system redesign -- Transparency of cost and performance -- Payment and payer-based strategies -- Community-based and transitional care -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- SECTION III -- THE POLICY AGENDA: The policy agenda -- Payments for value over volume -- Medically complex patients -- Delivery system integration -- Delivery system efficiency -- Administrative simplification -- Consumer-directed policies -- SECTION IV -- GETTING TO 10 PERCENT: Taking stock: numbers and policies -- Getting to 10 percent: opportunities and requirements -- Common themes and next steps |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 631 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0309144337 0309144345 9780309144339 9780309144346 |