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Benchmarks From 1996 Book

George Swan, www.hospital2000.com   ( 21 September 2006 )

How Are The "Benchmark" Groups Achieving Their Results?

Robert J. Speth   ( 26 September 2006 )

Benchmarks From 1996 Book 21 September 2006
George Swan, Healthcare Consultant Global Care Solutions, www.hospital2000.com Send letter to journal: Re: Benchmarks From 1996 Book iplus007{at}hotmail.com George Swan, et al.	Very useful article. However, I see no reference to the excellent book written back in 1996, Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform, by Norm Daniels, Don Light, and Ron Caplan. See their evaluation of alternative health insurance proposals of 1994. Here we are, ten years down the road, repeating the same work???? I wonder what they'll come up with in another ten years -- maybe the same thing, eh?
How Are The "Benchmark" Groups Achieving Their Results? 26 September 2006
Robert J. Speth, Retired None Send letter to journal: Re: How Are The "Benchmark" Groups Achieving Their Results? bob_speth{at}hotmail.com Robert J. Speth	The authors state, "Improving the yield for the nation’s investment in health care requires research and data capacity." Could an analysis of what research and data capacity the "benchmark" groups have be first done before spending implementation dollars? Information technology (IT) projects have a history of going astray. Perhaps with an analysis of what IT the "benchmark" organizations use to obtain better results, it would be possible to limit the national investment (and misdirection) in medical IT. Surely, many of the "benchmark" groups achieve their better results without large investments in IT. How do they do accomplish that?