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Healthcare Is Changing, Right? Here’s 5 Reasons It’s Not.

HIT Consultant

Rising cost pressures from insurance companies, regulations aimed at reducing costs , and a generally complex and fragmented payment system can limit innovations that could improve patient outcomes. It’s all about the money, money, money. For insurers, this means contracting is always a question.

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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

Another global view on value is offered in the report, Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage , from the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, and the OECD.