title: Keys to a high-performance health system for the United States.
abstract: Five keys to better performance in the U.S. healthcare system are: Coverage of the uninsured, reduction in cost shifting, and administrative simplification. More primary care and less specialty care. Interoperable health IT. Mass customization of care. Delivery of near perfect care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, USA. scs@cmwf.org
authors.forename: Stephen C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Schoenbaum
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D002201:Capital Expenditures; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006280:Health Workforce; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D008511:Medicine / Q000592:standards; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013038:Specialization; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States