New Perspectives in Healthcare ― Impacts of Regulation, Organization, Reform and Change in the United States Health System

This volume collects 13 reprinted articles (first published in Emerald journals from 2011-2013) on healthcare in the US and its regulation, reform, and evolution, with discussion of the Affordable Care Act, the impacts of Medicare and Medicaid, mandatory public reporting, changes in technology such as electronic personal health records, and coping with an aging population. Healthcare and other specialists also discuss physician Medicare fraud, continuous improvement in public reporting, what Canada can learn from the US experience in reducing healthcare-associated infections, applying the free market philosophy to healthcare, pharmaceutical supply chain management, primary care, hospice care, healthcare management, and age-based rationing. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)