Real Access Points: Key to Healthcare Reform Systematic Framework

Catholic healthcare ministry's key role in healthcare reform.

WHY HEALTHCARE REFORM IS REAL Heal thcare reform is being driven by four economic and social forces, the most potent of which is the rapidly rising cost of healthcare. At current rates of growth, it is predicted that in six years the annual healthcare costs for a family of four will be $30,000—more than the family will spend on food, housing, transportat ion, and clothing combined. These costs ...

The medicine we do: real reform of healthcare.

A primary response to healthcare reform.

National telemedicine initiatives: essential to healthcare reform.

Contributing authors: Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Ph.D.,3 Jim Grigsby, Ph.D.,4 Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D.,5 Ronald S. Weinstein, M.D.,3 Jay H. Sanders, M.D.,6 Karen S. Rheuban, M.D.,7 Thomas S. Nesbitt, M.D.,8 Dale C. Alverson, M.D.,9 Ronald C. Merrell, M.D.,10 Jonathan D. Linkous,11 A. Stewart Ferguson, Ph.D.,12 Robert J. Waters, J.D.,13 Max E. Stachura, M.D.,14 David G. Ellis, M.D.,15 Nina M. Antonio...

pharmaceutical strategic purchasing: a key to improve access to medicines

pharmaceuticals are often considered as the most significant cost driver of health care expenditures and at the same time have a major impact on patients’ curative processes and outcomes. other pieces of evidence emphasize that drugs are the input for the production of good health. they are considered as the most important and expensive element in the healthy supply chain and are more associate...