title: Cost-effective health care: new data.
abstract: The key to health care programs that meet their goals is to integrate data, coordinate care and ensure a patient-centered not cost-centered, focus. Then the purchaser can achieve the desired decrease in cost of care, increase in quality of care, improvement in quality of life, improvement in job performance, decrease in disability and decrease in absenteeism.
authors.affiliation: PBM-PLUS, Inc., USA.
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Kalies
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000592:standards*; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D017008:Negotiating; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000191:economics; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D012308:Risk Management; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States