Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform

Toward a 21st-century health care system: recommendations for health care reform.

The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the U.S. health care system are evident. Sustainable health care reform must go beyond financing expanded access to care to substantially changing the organization and delivery of care. The FRESH-Thinking Project (www.fresh-thinking.org) held a series of workshops during which physicians, health policy experts, health insurance executives, business le...

Health Analytics, Economics and Medicine toward a 21st Century Health Care System

After a review of recent developments in precision medicine, population health sciences and innovative clinical trial designs, and in health economics and policy, we show how innovations in health analytics can capitalize on the advances in biomedicine and health economics towards developing a data-driven and cost-effective 21st century health care system. In particular, we propose a mutually b...

Health Reform in the 21st Century: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System

Workforce for 21st-Century Health and Health Care.

The health and health care workforce in the United States consists of many different kinds of occupations and roles, generally categorized by the US Bureau of LaborStatisticsas “practitioners, technical, andsupportingpositions.”Withanagingpopulationandmoreof the populationobtaininghealth insurancecoverage, thedemand for health care workers is projected to increase. According to the Bureau of La...

Health care system reform.