Best Care at Lower Cost—The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. Best Care at Lower Cost makes the case that the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. This book is a call to action for health care providers, administrators, federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and everyone concerned with the future of health care in the United States.