This Act prevents those with criminal histories from working within long-term care settings by created a comprehensive nationwide system of background checks.
An approach that takes into consideration the patients’ cultural traditions, personal preferences and values, family situations and lifestyles. Responsibility for important aspects of self-care and monitoring is put in patients’ hands–along with the...
An approach to providing comprehensive primary care for individuals through creating a setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians. This approach to care is aided by registries, information technology, health...
A private, nonprofit institute created in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to set an agenda for, and oversee the conduct of, comparative effectiveness research in the U.S.
Also known as Value-Based Payments or Value-Based Purchasing, a method of paying health care providers differing amounts based on their performance on measures of quality and efficiency. Payment incentives can be in the form of bonuses or financial penalties.