The quality conundrum: Practical approaches for enhancing patient care
More than a year in development, “The Quality Conundrum” is a compilation of essays by PwC subject matter experts, discussions with selected clients and insights from our interviews with health industry leaders in the United States and around the world. It explores the barriers that have made healthcare quality improvements difficult to achieve, and outlines a clear path to progress. It includes a discussion of quality from the patient's perspective, in the journey across the health care system.
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Behind the Numbers: 2007 Medical cost trends for employers
Healthcare spending in the U.S. is expected to increase by double digits in 2007, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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HealthCast 2020: Creating a Sustainable Future
While no one nation has all the answers to the healthcare dilemma --- most have pieces that ARE working.
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HealthCast Tactics: A Blueprint for the Future
This report suggests tactics for the healthcare industry to employ over the next three to five years. According to HealthCast
Tactics, there are significant gaps between what
healthcare executives, policy makers and employers
rate as important and what is being implemented
performance-based reimbursement, privacy, and
clinical excellence. The report draws on a survey
of more than 650 top executives of hospital
systems, payors, governments, medical supply
vendors, physician groups and employers.
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HealthCast
2010: Smaller World, Bigger
Expectations
Our survey group included
a mix of policy makers, health system executives,
employers, physicians, insurers and medical supply
vendors. In addition, PwC practice leaders
interviewed more than 50 thought leaders from
seven countries at length about future trends and
their implications for the industry's
stakeholders.
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Rising costs of healthcare
Increases in spending on healthcare services are still an unmet challenge.
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