Accountability for Health

Achieving accountability for health and health care.

There is no well-established mechanism at the local level to discuss or manage the balance of investments in health care and the other social determinants of health. We propose the development of voluntary regional organizations and/or use of current organizations to work with stakeholders of the health system to 1) review local data on health, experience and quality of care, and costs of care ...

Canada’s Health Accountability Plan

"Health courts" and accountability for patient safety.

Proposals that medical malpractice claims be removed from the tort system and processed in an alternative system, known as administrative compensation or "health courts," attract considerable policy interest during malpractice "crises," including the current one. This article describes current proposals for the design of a health court system and the system's advantages for improving patient sa...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Saint Joseph's University (the "University") is providing this Notice to you on behalf of the Health Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan is required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information. The Plan is also required to send you this Notice which explains how the Plan may use information about you and when the Plan can give out or "disclose" that information to others. You also have ri...

Social accountability in health professionals' training.

With the 100th anniversary of Flexner’s seminal report on medical education, The Lancet published guidelines by a global independent Commission that aimed to establish a 21st-century vision for the education of health professionals. As young doctors, we applaud the Commission for moving beyond professional silos to new models of interprofessional collaboration. But there should be more emphasis...