Brain Injury Professional

The official publication of the International Brain Injury Association and the North American Brain Injury Society

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Initiatives Toward Creating a True Value Equation for Brain Injury

  Introduction Changes in healthcare reimbursement mechanisms will require innovation to adequately care for future brain injury populations. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 20091 included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act which provided incentives to encourage electronic health record implementation. This … [Read more...] about Initiatives Toward Creating a True Value Equation for Brain Injury

Value for Patients

By Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD and Scott Wallace, JD, MBA Value, achieving improved health outcomes for the money spent, is the goal of health care.1 When Redefining Health Care published in 2006, critics worried that value was a utopian goal and better outcomes would always require higher spending.2 While the goal of higher value is now widely accepted, a persistent question … [Read more...] about Value for Patients