The Triple Aim: A Golden Opportunity for Geriatrics

A golden opportunity, squandered.

Even when used to make products of negligible risk and that contribute significantly to public health, recombinant DNA technology (a.k.a. ‘genetic modification’, or GM) applied to agriculture has a tough row to hoe. ‘Golden Rice’, which has been enriched by the addition of genes that allow rice to synthesize b-carotene (the precursor of vitamin A) in its edible endosperm, has endured resistance...

A Golden Opportunity.

A bleak future or a golden opportunity.

The solutions to the problems facing the healthcare profession are too large to be addressed by one narrow segment, but oncologists and oncology nurses can be a model for health care in general if we build upon the ways in which we work together. Here is a shortage we have not heard much about: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently released a report projecting a serious shor...

The AAN and the triple aim.

The triple aim: care, health, and cost.

Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. Preconditions for this include the enrollment of an identified population, a commitment to universality for its members, and the existence of an organization (an "integrator") that accepts responsi...