Transparency in health and health care in the United States : law and ethics

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Transparency in health and health care in the United States : law and ethics

Title remainder

law and ethics

Statement of responsibility

edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School; I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School; Carmel Shachar, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School; Barbara J. Evans, University of Houston Law Center

Contributor

• Lynch, Holly Fernandez

Editor

• Lynch, Holly Fernandez

Subject

• Informed consent (Medical law) -- United States
• Medical care -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Medical care -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Medical care, Cost of
• Medical care, Cost of -- United States
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics -- United States
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

• "Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. Transparency initiatives show great promise, including empowering patients and other stakeholders to make more efficient decisions, improve resource allocation, and better regulate the health care industry. Nevertheless, transparency is not a cure-all for the problems facing the modern health care system. The authors of this volume present a nuanced view of transparency, exploring ways in which transparency has succeeded and ways in which transparency initiatives have room for improvement. Working at the intersection of law, medicine, ethics, and business, the book goes beyond the buzzwords to the heart of transparency's transformative potential, while interrogating its obstacles and downsides. It should be read by anyone looking for a better understanding of transparency in the health care context"--
• "Transparency is a relatively new concept to the world of health and health care, considering that just a few decades ago we were still in the throes of a "doctor-knows- best" model. Today, however, transparency is front and center on almost every list of solutions to a variety of health policy problems, ranging from conflicts of interest to rising drug costs to promoting efficient use of health care resources, and more. Doctors are now expected to be transparent about patient diagnoses and treatment options, hospitals are expected to be transparent about error rates, insurers about policy limitations, companies about prices, researchers about data, and policymakers about priorities and rationales for health policy intervention"--

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DLC

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography