title: The roles of federal legislation and evolving health care systems in promoting medical-dental collaboration.
abstract: Recent federal health care legislation contains explicit and implicit drivers for medical-dental collaboration. These laws implicitly promote health care evolution through value-based financing, "big data" and health information technology, increased number of care providers and a more holistic approach. Additional changes--practice aggregation, consumerism and population health perspectives--may also influence dental care. While dentistry will likely lag behind medicine toward value-based and accountable care organizations, dentists will be affected by changing consumer expectations.
authors: Burton L
authors: BL
authors: Edelstein
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003256:Community Participation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003729:Dental Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006694:Holistic Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009909:Oral Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010348:Patient Care Team; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011364:Professional Practice; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States; D062505:Value-Based Purchasing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence