Health Care Reform: What It Means for North Carolina’s Hospitals

Health care reform: what it means for North Carolina's hospitals.

Because hospitals are both health care providers and employers, they face significant challenges and remarkable opportunities, particularly to improve quality, increase access, and reduce cost, as implementation of the Affordable Care Act moves forward over the next several years.

“six Sigma” What It Means in Health Care?

Managing the Psychology of Health Care: What it means and what it is worth

BACKGROUND Health care is perhaps the most complicated of services. While most services in the business world are challenged by the diversity of clients and variability in their needs, health care must face this challenge with tremendous pressure from other factors. On the one hand, the stakes are extremely high, and the demand for excellence is unmatched by those placed on other service provid...

Massachusetts health care reform: is it working?

Before 2006, Massachusetts had more than 500 000 residents who lacked health insurance. Governor Mitt Romney enacted landmark legislation requiring all residents to obtain health insurance. Also, the legislation established a health insurance exchange for the purpose of broadening the choices of insurance plans made available to individuals in the state. The purpose of this research was to asse...

Health care reform: why? What? When?

Dissatisfaction with the U.S. health care system is widespread, but no consensus has emerged as to how to reform it. The principal methods of finance-employer-based insurance, means-tested insurance, and Medicare-are deeply and irreparably flawed. Policymakers confront two fundamental questions: Should reform be incremental or comprehensive? And should priority be given to reforming the financi...