title: In search of a high-performing health system.
abstract: Healthcare today in the United States could be described as "the best of times and the worst of times," according to James Mongan, MD, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston. On one hand, the U.S. appears to have the best healthcare in the world, but on the other hand, it has an underperforming system whose costs are disproportionately higher than those of other industrialized nations.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D014481:United States