Transforming Human Health: Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery and Progress (2022)
Chapter: U.S. HEALTH CARE
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U.S. HEALTH CARE
“We can’t look at health in isolation. It’s not just in the doctor’s office. It’s got to be where we live, we work, we play, we pray. If you have a healthy community, you have a healthy individual.”
—Regina Benjamin, 18th U.S. Surgeon General and NAM Member
Coverage and Access
Updating Medicare
Filling Gaps in Employer-Provided Insurance Coverage
Covering All Children
Including Mental Health as Part of Whole-Person Health
Value-Based Health Care
Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
Shopping for Affordable Insurance
Paying for Value
Patient Safety and Quality
Upholding the Safety of Medications
Establishing National Standards for Health Care Research
Recognizing the Need to Measure and Monitor
Raising the Standard for Quality Care
Establishing a National Organization to Ensure Quality
Encouraging Reporting to Improve Patient Safety and Policy
Ensuring the Safety of Drugs Prescribed to Children
Enforcing Established Privacy Standards
Health and Biomedical Research
Enabling Open Access to Medical Research
Accelerating Cancer Research
Advancing a Global Public Good
Forging a New Path for Medical Research
From Research to Rewards
Pursuing the Promise of Precision Medicine
Health Care Workforce Evolution
Advanced Nurse Practitioner Rules and Requirements
Physician Assistants Receive Recognition
Elevating Primary Care
Expanding the Ability to Prescribe Medications
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Workforce
Changes to the Nursing Profession
Identifying Medical Assistants
Empowering Nurses
Medical and Health Informatics
Pioneering the Field of Medical Informatics
Putting Technology into Practice
Setting Standards and Regulating Health Information Technology
Building an Informatics Community
Considering Patient Privacy in Health Information Standards
Pledging to Implement Data Exchange Standards
Getting Providers Across the Nation on the Same Page
Interoperability to Improve Health
Updating Requirements for the 21st Century
Patient and Consumer Leadership in Health Care
Banding Together as Patient Advocates for Rare Diseases
Better Communication, Better Outcomes
Advocating for Patients
Rise of the Patient as Consumer
Placing Patients at the Center of Care
Empowering Patients to Contribute to Research
A New Approach to Health Care Research
Tools for Patient Participation
