The healthcare imperative
Subtitle: lowering costs and improving outcomes : workshop series summary
By: Pierre L. Yong, Robert S. Saunders, and LeighAnne Olsen, editors ; Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care; National Academies Press (U.S.)
Series: Learning health system series; Learning healthcare system series
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9780309144339
Subjects: Costs and Cost Analysis; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Quality of Health Care; Health Care Costs; Cost control; Cost of Medical care; Health Policy; Congresses; Medical care; Medical policy; Evaluation
Description: 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--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: SECTION I; title: EXCESSIVE HEALTHCARE COSTS: The healthcare imperative; title: Unnecessary services; title: Inefficiently delivered services; title: Excess administrative costs; title: Prices that are too high; title: Missed prevention opportunities; title: SECTION II; title: STRATEGIES THAT WORK: Strategies that work; title: Knowledge enhancement; title: Care culture and system redesign; title: Transparency of cost and performance; title: Payment and payer-based strategies; title: Community-based and transitional care; title: Entrepreneurial strategies; title: SECTION III; title: THE POLICY AGENDA: The policy agenda; title: Payments for value over volume; title: Medically complex patients; title: Delivery system integration; title: Delivery system efficiency; title: Administrative simplification; title: Consumer-directed policies; title: SECTION IV; title: GETTING TO 10 PERCENT: Taking stock: numbers and policies; title: Getting to 10 percent: opportunities and requirements; title: Common themes and next steps.