The healthcare imperative lowering costs and improving outcomes : workshop series summary / Pierre L. Yong, Robert S. Saunders, and LeighAnne Olsen, editors ; Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, |
| Description | xxiv, 631 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Yong, Pierre L. |
| Other author/creator | Saunders, Robert Samuel, 1978- |
| Other author/creator | Olsen, LeighAnne. |
| Other author/creator | Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care. |
| Other author/creator | National Academies Press (U.S.) |
| Series | Learning health system series Learning healthcare system series. ^A1333221 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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-- Source other than Library of Congress. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012405174 |
| ISBN | 9780309144339 |
| ISBN | 0309144337 |