Rescuing Health Care
While the Supreme Court deliberates the constitutionality of the individual mandate among other aspects of the health care reform law, hospital and health system leaders around the country have enlisted in a more urgent undertaking: rescuing health care. Driven by the mission to serve and troubled by the calculus of diminishing reimbursements, they are making smart, well-informed investments in health IT (Children’s Medical Center Dallas), building a blueprint for the medical home (The Advisory Board), and developing physician compensation plans with accountability embedded (Henry Ford Health System).
This edition of HealthCXO features coverage of several top-of-mind presentations made at the 2012 Congress of the American College of Healthcare Executives in Chicago, March 19–22. My advice? Bookmark the HealthCXO site so that you can return and digest this issue at your leisure.
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Cheryl Proval, Vice President, Executive Editor, Radiology Business
Cheryl began her career in journalism when Wite-Out was a relatively new technology. During the past 16 years, she has covered radiology and followed developments in healthcare policy. She holds a BA in History from the University of Delaware and likes nothing better than a good story, well told.