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This white paper argues in favor of a transformation of structure and function of governance for community health systems destined for higher levels of clinical and business model integration. A principal goal of these recommended transformations is enhancing the performance of integrated health systems as “learning organizations” that are able to acquire knowledge and innovate fast enough to survive in a rapidly changing environment. 

Many experts see PAs as important contributors to emerging strategies to deliver health care more efficiently and effectively, but important barriers exist that could slow the growth of the profession. For example, state laws and regulations may not be broad enough to encompass the professional competencies of PAs. In addition, state statutes and regulations impose widely diverse restrictions on physicians’ ability to delegate authority to PAs, which, in some instances, are overly strict.

Pharmacists practice in a variety of health care settings. Although they are most often associated with dispensing medications in retail pharmacies, their role is evolving to include providing direct care to patients as members of integrated health care provider teams.

One way states could increase access to primary care for their residents is to consider easing their scope of practice restrictions and modifying their reimbursement policies to increase the role of nurse practitioners in providing primary care, according to a new paper released by the National Governors Association (NGA).

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report - Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States - the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S.

A team approach to patient education was utilized in a 3 1/2 year experimental program in a 500-bed commnunity teaching hospital. This paper relates the problems inherent in an interdisciplinary team which uses a shared leadership approach and its relationship to the larger organization, the hospital. It described the impact the team had on its members and on the patients and discusses the implications for others who are contemplating using teams.

This paper is part of the collected papers of DeWitt C. "Bud" Baldwin.

The 2015 National Impact Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Measures Report (2015 Impact Report) is a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of the measures used in CMS quality reporting programs on achieving the goals of providing high quality, affordable healthcare to CMS beneficiaries. The 2015 Impact Report represents an assessment of 25 CMS reporting programs, using data from 2006 to 2013.

This document is a result of a collaborative effort in 2006 by representatives from six healthcare regulatory organizations. It has been developed to assist legislators and regulatory bodies with making decisions about changes to healthcare professions’ scopes of practice.

The World Health Organization's Department of Health Workforce in collaboration with the Department of Knowledge, Ethics and Research commissioned this report to provide countries with evidence to inform and guide the adoption of innovative, technology-enabled models into health professional education, so as to augment capacities to scale up production, enhance quality and relevance of training, and adopt equity-focused policies.

Our health is influenced by diverse factors — not only by medical care and our health care system, but also by our work, our level of education and income, where we live and many other things that are together referred to as social determinants of health (SDH).