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From proposals to policies: A national conversation on healthcare reform
Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and health correspondent of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, moderated a panel of healthcare experts, economists and lawmakers as they discussed President-elect Obama's health care reform proposals. This broadcast was recorded from the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2008.
Healthcare policy in an Obama administration: Delivering on the promise of universal coverage
President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to implement multiple changes in our health care system with the goal to increase access and affordability of health care in the United States. This report recognizes the difficulty in developing such reforms in light of current market conditions, the implications reforms could have and provides five suggestions to make health care more affordable. To find out more about how the President-elect proposes to implement changes to the existing health care system and the possible impact of such reforms read,
Healthcare policy in an Obama administration: Delivering on the promise of universal coverage.
What
employers want from health insurers – now
Studies show that most employers are satisfied with their health benefits
and want to continue providing these benefits to their employees. However,
employers' expectations of their health insurers are changing, and while
many studies in the past have examined the relationship between employees
and their employer-sponsored benefits, less is known about employers and
what they want from insurance carriers. To find out more about the
evolving attitudes US employers have regarding health insurers read,
What employers want from health insurers - now.
Children’s Medical Center integrates process improvement and electronic health record initiatives
Modern Healthcare and PricewaterhouseCoopers present
Straight Talk. This session addresses process improvement and EHR initiatives and was held at Modern Healthcare’s Chicago headquarters on August 26, 2008. Fawn Lopez, publisher of
Modern Healthcare, was the moderator.
Children’s Medical Center, a two-hospital pediatric system in the Dallas metropolitan area, is successfully embracing one of healthcare’s more challenging missions: to significantly improve care delivery by providing real-time, all-the-time access to electronic health records (EHR) for patients and providers. Children’s, affiliated with UT Southwestern Medical Center, is licensed for 483 beds. Its leadership approaches the EHR project as an integral component of hospital-wide process improvement initiative, involving collaboration among senior leaders, physicians, clinical personnel and information technology experts.
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Children’s Medical Center integrates process improvement and electronic health record initiatives.
You get what you pay for: A global look at balancing demand, quality, and efficiency in healthcare payment reform
As the pressure to control health spending increases, payers, governments, and providers are compelled to scrutinize the quality and amount of care they'll be able to deliver in the future. Health leaders around the world see the health payment system as one of the best tools in managing this challenge and achieving sustainability. However, with less than 40% of those same leaders ranking their existing payment system as good, every country has room to improve and can benefit from shared best practices. See
You get what you pay for: A global look at balancing demand, quality, and efficiency in healthcare payment reform.
Research rewired: Merging care and research information to improve knowledge discoveryToday's ad hoc methods of managing research information are beginning to strain under increasing demands for new drugs, more personalized medicine, better diagnostic tools, and post-market safety monitoring. This report investigates the benefits, barriers, and emerging approaches to creating an integrated information environment that will help to shape scientific diagnostic, drug, and device discovery in the future.
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Top eight health industry issues in 2008
Health organizations face a pivotal year in 2008 as they anticipate the wildcard outcome of the presidential election. Meanwhile, they must prepare for impending changes — pharmaceutical and life sciences companies are adapting to a new safety agenda from the FDA including the agency's expanded authority over post-market drug safety.
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Collaboration fosters connected health
The system of caring for people.the chronically ill, the elderly or even the fitness buff.is reactive, expensive and cumbersome. But a new paradigm of care, called connected health, promises to reduce costs and improve quality by working with patients proactively.
The economics of IT and hospital performance
More than 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have made significant enough investments in information technology to begin seeing reductions in operating costs, according to a report on the relationship between health IT investment and hospital operating performance. The report, the culmination of two-years of research, provides the most comprehensive evidence that investment in information technology will improve hospital business performance and that IT capital investment can eventually pay for itself in the healthcare environment.
HealthCast 2020: Creating a sustainable future
In this groundbreaking report, HealthCast 2020, PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at solutions and responses from around the world to the globalization and industrywide convergence of healthcare. What insights, best practices and policy lessons can be learned from experiences in various countries to create a globally sustainable health system? Who, or what, is driving the solutions?
Clinical information systems
Straight Talk: New approaches in Healthcare
Trends in IT spending among hospitals
This year's Modern Healthcare/PricewaterhouseCoopers IT Survey included responses from 394 hospital CEOs and CFOs revealing how IT spending patterns are changing.
HealthCast tactics: A Blueprint for the future
This report suggests tactics for the healthcare industry to employ over the next three to five years. According to HealthCast Tactics, there are significant gaps between what healthcare executives, policy makers and employers rate as important and what is being implemented performance-based reimbursement, privacy, and clinical excellence. The report draws on a survey of more than 650 top executives of hospital systems, payors, governments, medical supply vendors, physician groups and employers.
HealthCast 2010: Smaller world, bigger expectations
Our survey group included a mix of policy makers, health system executives, employers, physicians, insurers and medical supply vendors. In addition, PwC practice leaders interviewed more than 50 thought leaders from seven countries at length about future trends and their implications for the industry's stakeholders.
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