The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care (PHC) sector has embraced continuous quality improvement (CQI) as a way of improving the overall quality of care delivered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, in order to improve health outcomes. This evidence brief presents an overview of findings from local and international research about barriers, enablers and s...

BACKGROUND With advances in computer technology and mounting pressure to cut health care costs, there is a desire to automate clinical and patient records. METHODS We reviewed the barriers that hindered automation in the past, changes in the business environment, and the recent developments that could encourage automation, including the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accoun...

T Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which became law in 2010 and was recently upheld on June 28, 2012, by the Supreme Court, addresses a number of significant changes in health care access and services in the United States (National Federation on Independent Business Et Al. v. Sebelius Et Al., 2012; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2012a). As the nation f...

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd reinventing american health care how the...

America is hurting. The unemployment rate is still high, wages are low, and the housing market that pulled the economy into a deep recession is still not where it should be. To make things worse, the burden of the economic crisis is carried by the middle class and the most vulnerable groups. The poor are getting poorer; the rich are getting richer; and the middle class is eroding. Since 1980, a...

Background The shortage of qualified health workers in primary health care (PHC) in rural China has been a long-term challenge in China. Health workers’ job preferences and job choices are determined by various external and intrinsic factors. These factors are constantly changing along with the health system reform. This study aims to quantitatively measure job preferences of health workers in ...

Legal questions are an inevitable byproduct ofsignificant technology change in health care such as that underway as a result of health information technology (HIT). This article examines several important existing and emerging legal questions in a Medicaid context. First, do the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and State Medicaid agencies, have a fiduciary obligation to adopt and ...

BACKGROUND Massachusetts women have the highest rates of health insurance coverage in the nation and women's access to care has improved across all demographic groups. However, important challenges persist. As national health reform implementation moves forward under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states will likely encounter many of the same women's health challenges experienced in Massachuset...

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care (PHC) sector has embraced continuous quality improvement (CQI) as a way of improving the overall quality of care delivered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, in order to improve health outcomes. This evidence brief presents an overview of findings from local and international research about barriers, enablers and s...