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Nov 19h, 2010 the forth annual conference for Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy will be held in Lexington Kentucky. Speakers will include:
Richard
Wild, MD, JD, Chief Medical Officer, Atlanta Regional Office
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will
present on, “CMS Perspectives on Value Based Purchasing, P4P,
and Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records.”
Dr Jim Battles, PhD, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ - Presenting on Quality and Safety Provisions in the New Health Care Reform Law.
Joycelyn Elders, MD, Former US Surgeon General
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director, National Academy for State Health Policy -- Presenting on State Medicaid Policy on Hospital Acquired Conditions.
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Health Care in the United States - The leader of the free world is found to be below average when compared to the 30 European and industrialized
OECD Nations
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www.oecd.org ).
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Op-Ed PDF
U.S. Health System Performance:
-- National Scorecard on Health System Performance 2008
(Evaluates Healthy Lives, Quality Access, Efficiency, and
Equity)
Full Report
-- State Healthcare Scorecard in the United States 2009
Web Page
Executive Summary
Full Report
Department of Health and Human Services
-- Trends in the Health of Americans -
View 2009 Chartbook
-- The High Infant Mortality Rate in the US is due to a Very
High Percentage of Preterm Births.
Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development
Health at a Glance 2009 - OECD
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-- Life Expectancy at Birth (US is
below average for OECD Nations)
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-- Infant Mortality (US is
above average for OECD Nations)
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Factbook 2009 Economic, Environmental and
Social Statistics
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-- US Healthcare Expenditures (US spends the most
as a percentage of GDP)
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The US has a high maternal mortality rate compared to other industrialized nations. The Lancet - Oct 13, 2997
The US has less hospital beds, nurses, doctors and CT scanners per capita than the
average OECD nation.
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