Research shows that coordinated care - providers collaborating to produce the best health outcome - offers better quality and costs less.
But how do we prove the health outcome of that impact, or sum it across our larger portfolio of clients with differing profiles and impacts?
The outline proposals will now be submitted for consideration by the Department of Health and the outcome is expected by July.
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Regardless of the outcome of health care, those problems still exist and they have to be addressed throughout the remainder of the year.
The more likely outcome is that government health schemes will start demanding discounts from drugs firms, and will buy more generics.
Of course, in one sense, health care is clearly focused on outcome.
"Underlying health is a huge factor in the outcome of pregnancy, " she said.
So while the success of the 1993 budget deal and the failure of the 1993 health reform effort might have been the best outcome for the country, it might have been the worst outcome for the prospects of the Democratic Party.
They must find the political will to make reproductive health fundamental to implementing sustainable development as a major outcome at Rio.
Dr Mathi Chandrakumar, the director of Kent Health Protection Unit, said it was a "sad outcome".
Eric Topol of Scripps Health says his concerns would be the same whatever the outcome of the study.
The research team said the difference in outcome could not simply be explained by bad health habits which could affect the birthweight.
"However we're confident in the justice system and although the CPS have discontinued the charges of manslaughter, we are led to believe there will be health and safety issues to address and are confident the outcome will remain the same, " she said.
These considerations prompt the Center for Security Policy to conclude that, if the budget summit is not to do real violence to the economic health and security of the Nation, the only possible outcome is to slip the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings targets for FY1991 and the outyears.
As incentives no longer reward outcome over activity, this is a disaster financially for health professionals.
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Public health minister Yvette Cooper said: ""We are delighted with the outcome of this judgement.
In clinical outcome studies, one tries to identify all of the components of health status that have been empirically shown to demonstrate an impact on mortality, longevity, etc.
If the convenor refuses to appoint an review panel or if the patient is unhappy with the outcome of the panel's investigation they can complain to the health ombudsman.
Health Minister Lord Hunt told peers the government would usually wait until the final outcome of the legal process, but he said the US developments showed these were not normal circumstances.
The outcome of the debate will have an impact on business--and public health--for decades to come.
There can be no other outcome than that this will seriously affect my ability to continue working within the health and education sector.
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Such an outcome seems unlikely: no government would stand by and let people be denied health treatment because a primary-care trust got its sums wrong.
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End of life is the single largest cost in health care, and doctors are forced to perform treatments they know will have no change in outcome and in fact destroy quality of life that is left for many of these folks.
Those rules reward groups of health care providers by allowing them to keep a percentage of the money they save by treating patients based on outcome, instead of fee-for-service.
To make a long story short I achieved the best possible clinical outcome within the optimal timeframe to give me a normal lifespan, living a good life and in good health.
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