Erschienen in:
01.11.2013 | Comment
The Silent Physician
verfasst von:
Hemal K. Kanzaria, MD, Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 11/2013
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Excerpt
In just a few months, the US health care system will change dramatically. About 16 million Americans will be newly enrolled in Medicaid, and health care coverage will be provided to over half of those previously uninsured.
1 Accountable care organizations, highlighted in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as key to improving quality and containing costs, now number in the hundreds. Electronic medical records are widespread, if not yet commonplace. Some view these changes as precipitous; others view them as long overdue. But there’s no doubt that change is in the air. What does the average physician think about these evolving trends and his or her participation in them? We have no idea. …