Clifford Goodman
Clifford Goodman
National policymakers are considering whether to make major long-term investments in electronic medical record (EMR) systems. The matter of rising health care costs is never far from any health care debate, and the prospect for EMR systems ...
David U Himmelstein,Steffie Woolhandler
David U Himmelstein
The current fascination with electronic medical records (EMRs) is not new. For decades, vendors have capitalized on this enthusiasm. But hospitals and clinics have ended up with little to show for their large outlays. Indeed, computing at a...
James M Walker
James M Walker
Effective electronic medical care record (EMR) systems will make a critical contribution to health care transformation. However, we need to know more about the total costs of EMRs and the ways in which they will interact with existing healt...
Can electronic medical record systems transform health care? Potential health benefits, savings, and costs [0.03%]
电子健康档案系统能否改变医疗卫生行业？潜在的健康效益、节约和成本支出
Richard Hillestad,James Bigelow,Anthony Bower et al.
Richard Hillestad et al.
To broadly examine the potential health and financial benefits of health information technology (HIT), this paper compares health care with the use of IT in other industries. It estimates potential savings and costs of widespread adoption o...
John K Iglehart
John K Iglehart
What high-deductible plans look like: findings from a national survey of employers, 2005 [0.03%]
美国企业高免赔计划的特点-基于2005年全美雇主调查的发现
Gary Claxton,Jon Gabel,Isadora Gil et al.
Gary Claxton et al.
This paper documents the availability, enrollment, premiums, and cost sharing for high-deductible health plans that are offered with a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) or are health savings account (HSA)-qualified plans. Almost 4 perc...
Competition in health care: it takes systems to pursue quality and efficiency [0.03%]
医疗竞争：以制度保障质量和效率
Alain C Enthoven,Laura A Tollen
Alain C Enthoven
Many stakeholders agree that the current model of U.S. health care competition is not working. Costs continue to rise at double-digit rates, and quality is far from optimal. One proposal for fixing health care markets is to eliminate provid...
The power of paperwork: how Philip Morris neutralized the medical code for secondhand smoke [0.03%]
纸上谈兵：PM公司如何使二手烟危害医学代码失效
Daniel M Cook,Elisa K Tong,Stanton A Glantz et al.
Daniel M Cook et al.
A new medical diagnostic code for secondhand smoke exposure became available in 1994, but as of 2004 it remained an invalid entry on a common medical form. Soon after the code appeared, Philip Morris hired a Washington consultant to influen...
Mary Ruggie
Mary Ruggie
Within the past decade, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has penetrated mainstream U.S. health care. Major medical journals are publishing research on the efficacy of specific CAM therapies, physicians are attending oversubscrib...
Todd Gilmer,Lawrence J Schneiderman,Holly Teetzel et al.
Todd Gilmer et al.
Ethics consultations have been shown to reduce the use of "nonbeneficial treatments," defined as life-sustaining treatments delivered to patients who ultimately did not survive to hospital discharge, when treatment conflicts occurred in the...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Health affairs (Project Hope). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):961-71. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.961 2005