"Formulating a New Healthcare System with Old Ideals: America's Next Step".

The American healthcare system is in chaos. It is in shambles because of what American's value and how they have changed over time. American values have changed with their healthcare system.

Integrating Physician Practice Management Courses Into Health Administration Curricula.

In today's health care industry, physicians face considerable regulatory and social trends that compel them to modify their practices-and these changes will continue throughout their careers. Emerging reimbursement systems are increasingly tying payment to quality metrics. To appropriately obtain and report patient data to payors, physician practices should adopt electronic health records.

Medicare reform and primary care concerns for future physicians.

The widening income gap between specialists and primary care physicians (PCPs) has spurred many physician associations to reform the current Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule and sustainable growth rate expenditure target system. Hoping to better represent primary care, the American Association of Family Physicians formed a task force in 2011 to suggest supplements to the Relative Value Update Committee's procedural code recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In addition, the predicted shortage of PCPs has caused many medical schools to increase class sizes; the scarcity of PCPs has also spurred the founding of new medical schools.

Pay for performance: improving quality care.

Pay-for-Performance (PFP) is becoming increasingly viewed as a viable means of responding to the ever increasing pressure for economy, continuity, and consistency in the delivery of health care. Pay-for-Performance is an important development in the move toward a more quality-driven health care system. The quality improvement mission of today's PFP programs is to provide realistic incentives encouraging physicians and hospitals to deliver quality health care in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

The challenge of sustaining health care in Oman.

The health care system in Oman is being reformed. During the last 3 decades, the Oman health care system has demonstrated and reported great achievements in health care services and preventive and curative medicine. In 2001, Oman was ranked number 1 by the World Health Organization as a result of its "spectacular performance" in reducing infant mortality rates during the past 3 decades.

Managing overutilization, quality of care, and sustainable health care outcomes in Oman.

The health care system in Oman is facing a major challenge in managing escalating health care costs. One of the reasons for the dramatic increase in health care cost is overutilization. This article explores the problem of overutilization in Oman and its effect on sustaining the quality of health care.

The applicability of Bass's model of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership in the hospital administrative environment.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate empirically in the hospital administrative environment the relationship of leadership behaviors to subordinate manager's perceived outcomes, through examination of B. M. Bass's (1985) model of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership.