title: Technologies of health policy.
abstract: Major factors in adoption of new national health policies include (1) a crisis or perceived opportunity; (2) a persuasive diagnosis of what is needed; (3) a prescription for new policies; and (4) new technologies that are ready to go. The past twenty-five years illustrate that the development of new policy ideas to where they can be implemented as major nationwide reforms can take a decade or more. Many national policy ideas for evidence-based medicine--such as electronic health records, rapid-learning networks, predictive modeling, Medicare/Medicaid disease management, widespread pay-for-performance, and large consumer-information databases--are in a development phase.
authors.affiliation: George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. lyneth1@aol.com
authors.forename: Lynn M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Etheredge
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009313:National Health Programs; D013672:Technology / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States