E36 www. painphysicianjournal. com broken system and have done little to address the
underlying problems: its unsustainable finances and threat to our nation's future. Rather than …

Abstract While the United States leads the world in many measures of health care
innovation, it has been suggested that it lags behind many developed nations in a variety of …

Interoperability is one of the hottest topics in healthcare, yet one of the least well understood.
Successful interoperability offers great opportunities to improve quality and outcomes while …

Both the enthusiastic adoption and somewhat lackluster early results of pay for performance
have given rise to a broader payment-reform movement, with proposals and pilots emerging …

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping
reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed …

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and
ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as …

This fourth edition of Principles of Health Informatics has been updated, reordered, and
revised to focus on the health interoperability standards that are most important in the 2020s …

Health reformers have an established record of losing. Going into 2009, there were plenty of
reasons to believe that they would fail again. A polarized political environment, soaring …

New strategies to control US health spending growth are urgently needed. Although
provider payment cuts are likely, cutting fee-for-service (FFS) payments will hurt quality and …

Background We examined whether older adults who had continuity of care with a primary
care physician (PCP) had lower mortality. Methods Secondary analyses were conducted …