Kaiser Permanente Use of Health Information Technology Leads to Improved Care Quality
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NCQA/Merk Patient Centered Medical Home Video
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Atul Gawande: Surgeon and journalist
Surgeon by day and public health journalist by night, Atul Gawande explores how doctors can dramatically improve their practice using something as simple as a checklist.
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After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it. Here’s a radical solution to an agonizing problem.
Good informational video on the Medicare cost and options.
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Accountable Care Organization (ACO): A brief description of ACO’s, its benefits and structure.