Accountable Care Organizations: A Roadmap for Success, presents a culmination of important and timely issues being dealt with by healthcare providers, physician practices, insurers, and government agencies with regard to the movement for establishing accountable care organizations. The past decade has provided tremendous insights based on demonstrations and pilot projects related to healthcare quality and payment reform and led our nation to this point of transition in healthcare delivery system reform. The authors have examined a number of issues and pertinent literature from healthcare...

Population Health - Management, Policy and Technology, First Edition is a 14 chapter anthology on issues confronting today's public health and medical care stakeholders (i.e., consumers, patients and their families, care providers, clinicians, health care workers, public health workers, community leaders, academics, policy researchers, and technologists) in each community's healthcare and public health network. The transformation of the United States (U.S.) public health and medical care system is being driven by the need for improving quality, access and affordability of services for all...