title: Be on the lookout.
abstract: The cost coil tightens. The Net widens. Alternative care booms. And higher tech means more trade-offs. These and other trends play out in a new health care environmental assessment created by VHA and Deloitte & Touche--an Executive Chartbook exclusive to H&HN.
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States