TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yong,Pierre L.
AU  - Saunders,Robert Samuel
AU  - Olsen,LeighAnne
ED  - Institute of Medicine (U.S.).
ED  - National Academies Press (U.S.)
TI  - The healthcare imperative: lowering costs and improving outcomes : workshop series summary 
T2  - Learning health system series
SN  - 9780309144339
AV  - RA410 H434 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Academies Press
KW  - Medical care, Cost of
KW  - United States
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Cost control
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Health Care Costs
KW  - Costs and Cost Analysis
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
KW  - Quality of Health Care
N1  - 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; HKBU library; YT2025 M09
N2  - 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--
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