Here are four key segments of the health care industry poised to take advantage of new benefits under the Affordable Care Act as well as rules and regulations that will bundle payments to medical care providers, rewarding those who provide higher quality medical treatment and lower costs health services.
Whether it was efforts to internationalize exchange in services, symbolized by a burgeoning export of medical services, as people came from all over the world for high-quality medical procedures.
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Hospitals began to focus on the bottom line rather than providing quality medical care.
Basically, the rule requires insurers to spend 80 percent of premium dollars on medical care and quality improvement.
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Our work also allowed 780, 000 Yemenis to benefit from quality medical services at Red Crescent facilities that we refurbished.
Bruce Bagley, medical director for quality improvement at the American Academy of Family Physicians, said he welcomed the new efforts.
Michael Marcotte, medical director of quality for maternity services, says it has reduced the rate of such births to 4% from 15% to 20%.
When Americans find themselves in times of crisis -- from car accidents to national tragedies -- our robust network of EMS professionals ensures that quality medical care is only moments away.
My reforms are built on the pursuit of three goals: paying only for quality medical care, having insurance choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs, and restoring our sense of personal responsibility.
Supporters of the direct primary care approach see the pilots as a way to show Congress and an Obama administration eager to reign in Medicare spending that the concept can provide quality medical care and lower costs.
In addition, the health law as well as demands by private insurers and employers is placing a greater emphasis on a team approach to medical care that makes more doctors accountable for medical errors and quality improvement.
The CEO Cancer Gold Standard is a result of this collaboration, and marks the first-ever accreditation process established for employers to take action in five key areas of health: diet and nutrition, physical activity, tobacco cessation, screening for early detection of cancer and access to quality medical treatment and clinical trials.
"Our medical advice is of the highest quality and it is the opinion of our medical team that Keiron should have the repair now to ensure he is available for the majority of the Test series, " he said.
NHS, some of which involve tricky compromises such as the trade-off between the quality of medical care and its cost.
As we'll see shortly, the quality of medical care that Americans buy is often inferior to the treatment people get in other countries.
Among the world's developed nations, the United States stands at or near the bottom in most important rankings of access to and quality of medical care.
In a statement, the NKRF said the government's National Service Framework for renal services, announced last year, offered a "real opportunity" to raise the quality of medical care and reduce inequalities in the service.
Some of the most serious challenges facing health care today--medical errors, inconsistent quality and rising costs--can be addressed through the effective application of available health information technology linking all elements of the health care system.
Many of the schools under development are making a bigger push to educate future primary care physicians, which will be in greater need to improve the quality of medical care and lower costs by keeping patients out of the more expensive hospital setting.
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"The only way we can improve the safety of players, restore the confidence of our fans and secure the future of our game is to insist on the same quality of medical care, informed consent and ethical standards that we expect for ourselves and for our family members, " the statement said.
Since in American health care there is only competition to maximize quality, regardless of costs, developers and innovators of new medical technology are focused primarily on increasing quality regardless of cost.
Our Web-based documents also display quality ratings for medical providers to help our employees make value-based purchasing decisions.
The evidence shows that managed care has curbed medical inflation without compromising the quality of care (see article).
The bottom line is that red, white and black circles cannot reveal everything about the quality of a medical practice.
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Keep in mind, also, that I think primary care is crucial to offering high quality, affordable medical services to people.
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In my mind, we are already focusing as a country on improving the quality of the medical care system--the hospitals, doctors, etc.
Until now they have been stymied by a critical lack of information about the quality of the medical care they are buying.
So in Wagner, South Dakota, patients can receive high-quality, lifesaving medical care from a Sioux Falls specialist who can monitor their EKG and listen to their breathing -- from 100 miles away.
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"Everything we do is a balance of risks and benefits for the infant, and we have to be vigilant to make sure we are not making things worse, " says Dan L. Ellsbury, director of the Center for Research, Education and Quality at Pediatrix Medical Group, a large neonatal physicians group and a unit of Mednax Inc.
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