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- Title
THE FUTURE OF CARDIOVASCULAR CARE: FROM AFFORDABLE CARE TO THE ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER.
- Authors
KONSTAM, MARVIN A.
- Abstract
We are presently seeing exponential advances in medical knowledge and development of therapeutic and diagnostic tools. We have also begun to experience an historic restructuring of our health care system. But health care costs continue to rise, disparities persist, and the chaotic, disjointed, and often thoughtless discourse in Washington threatens to roll back the prior advances. Improvement in patient care will be severely stymied if the threats to academic medical centers are not countered. This paper will explore our present state through the lens of cardiovascular care. It will 1) examine clinical trends; 2) dissect the value and challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; 3) highlight limitations and alternatives to relying on the federal government; and 4) present the Academic Medical System construct, as a structure designed to retain and advance the academic mission.
- Subjects
CARDIOVASCULAR disease treatment; ACADEMIC medical centers; MEDICAL technology; THERAPEUTICS; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Transactions of the American Clinical & Climatological Association, 2018, Vol 129, p301
- ISSN
0065-7778
- Publication type
Article