title: Patient care in the year 2000.
abstract: This paper takes a futuristic, crystal-ball look at patient care in the 1990s and 2000. It approaches the future from two perspectives. First, having assumed that the conflicts and frustrations associated with the existing health-care system have come to a boil and in fact a "revolution" in health care has occurred, what will the patient experience in the way of personal health services? The second perspective approaches it from the management viewpoint and provides a personal glimpse (and prediction) of what will be required for health-service executives who manage and direct a futuristic health service system.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000639:trends; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends; D007256:Information Systems / Q000639:trends; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000639:trends; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States