Health Care Reform
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Commentary: Health care reform and its potential impact on academic medical centers.

30 Oct 2009 President Obama's administration has committed to significant changes in the current health care system to address three issues: access, cost, and quality. Leaders at academic medical centers (AMCs) must acknowledge the root cause of the problems ... Read more...

Medicine as ecoculture.

18 Oct 2009 The use of diagnostic tests, especially imaging studies, varies markedly across the United States-with higher costs but no better patient outcomes associated with the highest-use regions. A proposed new model of the health care system draws on an ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Care Reform'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Litigation amidst reform--the Boston Medical Center case. 3 Nov 2009
• President's page: who owns what or whom? Nov 2009
• Commentary: Health care reform and its potential impact on academic medical centers. 30 Oct 2009
• Medicare's new regulations for deep vein thrombosis as a "never event": wise or worrisome? 30 Oct 2009
• Health-care reform: behind the ads. 30 Oct 2009
• Reform of continuing medical education: investments in physician human capital. 26 Oct 2009
• ACC 2009 Advocacy Position Statement: Principles for comparative effectiveness research. 25 Oct 2009
• The 300-year-old health care solution. 24 Oct 2009
• When history really is not applicable or relevant. 24 Oct 2009
• European health systems face scrutiny in US debate. 22 Oct 2009
• Equity and NHS reforms. What about independent sector treatment centres? 19 Oct 2009
• Doctors, patients, and the need for health care reform. 19 Oct 2009
• Reform and the health care workforce--current capacity, future demand. 19 Oct 2009
• Physicians' views of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law--a poll. 19 Oct 2009
• How many physicians? How much does it matter? 19 Oct 2009
• Medicine as ecoculture. 18 Oct 2009
• Health care reform in perspective. 13 Oct 2009
• The Baucus bill and the hope for reform. 12 Oct 2009
• America, embrace health care reform. 11 Oct 2009
• Will the cost curve bend, even without reform? 6 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Care Reform'

Definition: Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.

Descriptor UI: D018166

Alternative terms: Health Care Reform; Health Care Reforms; Reform, Health Care; Reforms, Health Care; Healthcare Reform; Healthcare Reforms; Reform, Healthcare; Reforms, Healthcare;

Related Mesh Headings: Single-Payer System;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.825.608.400.285; N03.349.285; N03.706.825.608.428.285; N04.590.374.285; N05.300.380;

History Note: 94

Technical Notes: not restricted to US; specify state or country