1) Understand the historical drivers of healthcare reform. 2) Understand the important milestones in healthcare Reform over the last 100 years. 3) Understand the major goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). (This course is part of the Leadership Track)
This refresher course will review three major aspects of Healthcare Reform: 1) Historical drivers and milestones of healthcare Reform over the last 100 years, 2) The major implications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Radiology and 3) Contemporary examples of how this is being carried out in the state of Massachusetts. The historical drivers and milestones in healthcare reform over the last 100 years is important to understand current changes and vehicles involved in payment schemes that exist today. The major impliclations of the Affordable Care Act on radiology are key in understanding how current and future healthcare reforms will reshape medicine and radiology. Finally, current practices occuring in Massachusetts are the most revealing and telling picture of how all these healthcare reforms will affect the practice of medicine and radiology in the United States for many years to come.
King, B,
A Brief History of Health Care Reform . Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
http://archive.rsna.org/2014/13011251.html
