Adapting To An Evolving Health Care System: IOM Report Maps Plan For U.S.

Major advances in health care technology have contributed to making the U.S. health care system complex, costly and inefficient, but technology can also be part of the solution, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine.

An Institute of Medicine report released Sept. 6 highlights a conundrum: Major advances in medicine of the past several decades are significantly stressing health care delivery.

“Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America” was written as a roadmap to...

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