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Striking changes are occurring in the American healthcare system. Public confidence in the quality of care provided by doctors and hospitals has been shaken. The Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human [1], published in 2000, found that more people are killed annually by mistakes in medicine than by car accidents. The more recent report, Crossing the Quality Chasm [2] in 2001, calls for fundamental restructuring of American health care to assure high-quality chronic disease care. At the same time, substantial increases in healthcare costs are facing all payers, after a number of years of relatively flat costs associated with the growth of managed care. In many cases the increases in costs are being passed on to consumers through higher coinsurance and copayment rates for hospitals, doctors, and medications.
This chapter discusses the integration of patient outcomes data and the potential for using this information to improve cost and quality performance.
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Steinwachs, D.M. (2004). Patient Outcomes of Health Care: Integrating Data into Management Information Systems. In: Ball, M.J., Weaver, C.A., Kiel, J.M. (eds) Healthcare Information Management Systems. Health Informatics Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4041-7_23
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