I just found my copy of the book “Improving Health Policy and Management” edited by Stephen Shortell and Uwe Reinhardt. The book’s eleven chapters address many of the hot-button issues in today’s health reform debate:
- Creating and Executing Health Policy
- Minimum Health Insurance Benefits
- Caring for the Disabled Elderly
- An Overview of Rural Health Care
- Effectiveness Research and the Impact of Financial Incentives and Outcomes
- Changing Provider Behavior: Applying Research on Outcomes and Effectiveness in Health Care
- Health Care Cost Containment
- Redesign of Delivery Systems to Enhance Productivity
- Medical Malpractice
- Prolongation of Life: The Issues and the Questions
- Challenges for Health Services Research
The observant ready will notice one critical issue from today’s debate missing from this list… Information technology. …