Academic health centers : leading change in the 21st century / Committee on the Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century ; Linda T. Kohn, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohn, Linda T.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic medical centers--United States.

Academic medical centers.

Medical centers--United States.

Medical centers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Academic health centers are currently facing enormous changes that will impact their roles in education, research, and patient care. The aging and diversity of the population will create new health care needs and demands, while rapid advances in technology will fundamentally alter the health care systems (TM) capabilities. Pressures on health care costs, growth of the uninsured, and evidence of quality problems in health care will create a challenging environment that demands change. Academic Health Centers explores how AHCs will need to consider how to redirect each of their roles so they are able to meet the burgeoning challenges of health care and improve the health of the people they serve. The methods and approaches used in preparing health professionals, the relationship among the variety of their research programs and the design of clinical care will all need examination if they are to meet the changing demands of the coming decades. Policymakers will need to create incentives to support innovation and change in AHCs. In response, AHCs will need to increase the level of coordination and integration across their roles and the individual organizations that comprise the AHC if they are to successfully undertake the types of changes needed. Academic Health Centers lays out a strategy to start a continuing and long-term process of change.

Contents:

Front Matter. Reviewers.

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 FORCES FOR CHANGE 3 THE ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER AS A REFORMER: THE EDUCATION ROLE 4 THE ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER AS A MODELER: THE PATIENT CARE ROLE 5 THE ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER AS A TRANSLATOR OF SCIENCE: THE RESEARCH ROLE 6 THE CONSEQUENCES OF CURRENT FINANCING METHODS FOR THE FUTURE ROLES OF AHCS CES APPENDIXES

1 INTRODUCTION.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610179916

9780309167833

0309167833

9781280179914

1280179910

9780309505352

0309505356

OCLC:

70748862