MANAGED CARE June 2004. ©MediMedia USA
Vol. 13, No. 6
June 2004
Cover Story
The Institute of Medicine's extensive investigations into what constitutes quality in health care are becoming widely accepted. What we need now, says AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, are the systems in place to make it happen.
P&T Volunteers in the Error-Prevention Army
Pharmacy & therapeutics committees in health plans as well as hospitals can take actions that will help to minimize the well known problem of medication errors.
Reform means more funding to help plans tackle the health problems of the aged. But after five years of underpayment, will insurers want to take a chance again? Spotlight on Florida.
Plans are coming up with novel and not-so-novel ways to combat the growing immunity of micro-organisms to antibiotics.
The insurer has earmarked $40 million to help move doctors into the electronic age by issuing personal digital assistants.
DEPARTMENTS
Save a dollar, shorten a life.
News and Commentary
Bush Launches 10-Year-Effort To Create National EMR System
90 Million Left In Dark About Medical Info
Mergers Remain Hot Topic In Managed Care
Administrative costs: the price of giving consumers more choice [chart]
Headlines On Deadline ...
The governator's insurance regulator.
Wrong answer to problem of illegals.
Hospitals have upper hand.
ADHD medication use soars.
Laronidase is opening doors.
CDC promotes workplace wellness.
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