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Health Care Quarterly Report

QUARTERLY HEALTH CARE REPORT
September/October 2008, Vol. 15

Cost, Quality and Access-to-Care Issues in the U.S. / Ohio / Northeast Ohio

By Tom Campanella
Director, Health Care MBA Program, Baldwin-Wallace College

INTRODUCTION

Baldwin-Wallace College is pleased to offer its Quarterly Health Care Report by Professor Tom Campanella, Director of the Health Care MBA program, as a courtesy to those in the health care sector. In it, Professor Campanella summarizes and comments on what's new on the critical issues of health care costs, quality and access to care at the national and international levels, as well as health care news of interest in Ohio and the Northeast Ohio region.

You can access and print a pdf version of the report here.  We strongly recommend reading the Quarterly Health Care Report online as this format provides direct access to some interesting and relevant Health Care websites.

IN THIS ISSUE

This issue of the Quarterly Health Care Report focuses specific attention on the real drivers of health care costs and poor quality.  As part of this review, we will also delve into some of the proposed solutions to address these drivers including the specific proposals of Obama and McCain.

COSTS

  • What are the real drivers of health care costs?
  • Can pay-for-performance be linked to measures that have true economic and clinical value?
  • Payment reform and chronic diseases
  • The future of long-term care funding

 QUALITY

  • Telemedicine: What obstacles prevent its expansion?
  • Price & quality transparency: What does it mean to you?

 ACCESS TO CARE

  • Obama’s and McCain health care platforms: What are their fundamental differences?
  • Primary care crisis: How can we prepare for the future?

 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE

  • The role of health insurance in China
  • Medical tourism: separating fact from fiction

 STATE HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES

  • Health care related data at the state level

 NORTHEAST OHIO

           Beachwood- Monday, October 27th; Berea- Wednesday, October 29th   

                                      

               

Click here to print entire September/October 2008 report

Click here to review previous editions of the HC Quarterly Report


Sources cited in this Quarterly Health Care Report are listed at the end of each article.       

If you have any comments or observations concerning this Quarterly Health Care Report or you are interested in more information on Baldwin-Wallace College’s Health Care MBA Program, please contact Tom Campanella:  tcamp@bw.edu                 

Baldwin-Wallace College provides Professor Tom Campanella's Quarterly Health Care Report as a courtesy to those in the health care sector.  Comments, opinions, emphasis and content decisions are solely those of Tom Campanella.