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Harmonizing The Affordable Care Act With The Three Main National Systems For Healthcare Quality Improvement: The Tort, Licensure, And Hospital Peer Review Hearing Systems, Katharine Van Tassel
Harmonizing The Affordable Care Act With The Three Main National Systems For Healthcare Quality Improvement: The Tort, Licensure, And Hospital Peer Review Hearing Systems, Katharine Van Tassel
Katharine Van Tassel
.. [W]hile the ACA [Affordable Care Act] has at least some provisions addressing the need to make changes in the medical malpractice and licensure systems to encourage the use of evidence-based standards of care, the ACA completely ignores the hospital peer review system. This article makes specific suggestions for how to revise all three major systems [the tort, licensure, and hospital peer review] so that they can work in tandem with federal law to encourage physicians to adopt [an] evidence-based model of medical practice in order to improve healthcare quality, cost, and access. This article starts by explaining the difference …