Although we all have heard the statistics, this current state of health in the United States drives the work of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) to ensure access to coordinated, comprehensive, quality health care.JEANETTE MAY...
This paper defines quality of health care. We suggest that there are two principal dimensions of quality of care for individual patients; access and effectiveness. In essence, do users get the care they need, and is the care effective when they get it? Within effectiveness, we define two key...
However, healthcare data analytics solutions currently available in the market tend to have a rather niche scope, creating challenges around scalability and business sustainability for both analytics vendors and their industry customers. While data analytics vendors need to navigate a rather complex and ...
Defining access to health care: evidence on the importance of quality and distance in rural Tanzania. Am J Agric Econ. 2009;91(2):347-58.Klemick, Heather, Kenneth Leonard, and Melkiory Masatu. 2009. "Defining Access to Health Care: Evidence on the Importance of Quality and Distance in ...
Much of the conversation around AI in healthcare is centered around currently realized AI — tools that exist for practical applications today or in the very near future. Thus, the AMA categorizes AI terminology into two camps: terms that describe how an AI works and those that de...
National health care goals generally include providing broad access to appropriate amounts of high-quality health care at appropriate cost to the ultimate payers. Yet all countries, regardless of how they deliver and finance health care, struggle to achieve a sustainable balance among the implicit tr...
This article makes three distinctions: among knowledge about practice, knowledge about quality, and outcomes research; between outcomes research and the outcomes movement; and between the outcomes movement and other options for healthcare reform. The suggestion that statistical measurement of specific ...
Rather than focusing solely on quality improvement measures or cost-saving measures, there is a recent emphasis on the value of health care. Defining the value of spine care depends on a standardized, accurate method of measuring outcomes and costs. It is important that the outcomes measured are...
“It’s OK to cry and be frustrated even if you love what you do and care very much about the person you care for,” she said. “It’s OK to ask for help even though most of us would rather just do it ourselves. Make sure you don’t lose yourself in taking care of someone ...
What is the heart of health care? Advocating for and defining the clinical relationship in patient-centered care Models of medical care that are patient-centered have demonstrated capability to improve quality of care and reduce costs, while at the same time improve p... D Dill,P Gumpert 被引...