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From The Editor

The Internet Promise, The Policy Reality John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prologues

The Internet And Health: Vision [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Internet And Health: Business [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Internet And Health: Quality And Care [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Networking health: learning from others, taking the lead E H Shortliffe [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health care reform and the new economy P Starr [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Internet and managed care: a new wave of innovation J Goldsmith [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vaporware.com: the failed promise of the health care Internet J D Kleinke [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Financing the health care Internet J C Robinson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Beyond the hype: a taxonomy of e-health business models S T Parente [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The impact of the Internet on quality measurement D W Bates and A A Gawande [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Patients, physicians, and the Internet J P Kassirer [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: E-Health: Technologic Revolution Meets Regulatory Constraint Ben Merlin Fried, Gadi Weinreich, Gina M. Cavalier, and Kathleen J. Lester [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Self-Regulation: Who Needs It? Mark E. Boulding [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Virtually Exposed: Privacy And E-Health Janlori Goldman and Zoe Hudson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: E-Health, HIPAA, And Beyond John R. Lumpkin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Sovereign immunity and health care: can government be trusted? J L Akula [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

Two Old Hands And The New New Thing Robert Cunningham [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Measuring community benefits provided by for-profit and nonprofit hospitals S Nicholson, M V Pauly, L R Burns, A Baumritter, and D A Asch [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals U E Reinhardt [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospital conversions, margins, and the provision of uncompensated care K E Thorpe, C S Florence, and E E Seiber [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Are patients a scarce resource for academic clinical research? R A Rettig [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Update on the nation's health care system: 1997-1999 C S Lesser and P B Ginsburg [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tracking health care costs: inflation returns C Hogan, P B Ginsburg, and J R Gabel [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The growth of multihospital firms in California J Spetz, S Mitchell, and J A Seago [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Old before its time: HIPAA and e-health policy R Cunningham [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A life in health policy E Ginzberg [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Traversing the digital divide H Burstin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Despierta! D J Derksen [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Health information, the Internet, and the digital divide M Brodie, R E Flournoy, D E Altman, R J Blendon, J M Benson, and M D Rosenbaum [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmaceutical cost growth under capitation: a case study M Chernew, M E Cowen, D M Kirking, D G Smith, P Valenstein, and A M Fendrick [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Improving care at the end of life: what does it take? V Weisfeld, D Miller, R Gibson, and S A Schroeder [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants And Grant Outcomes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Mental health benefits under SCHIP E M Howell, J A Buck, and J L Teich [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Lead Poisoning: The Silenced Epidemic Gerald Markowitz [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Looking Backward: The Future Of An Epidemic Robert A. Padgug [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Clinician Versus Policymaker Philip Caper [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Skepticism Overdone: Managed Care And Costs H. E. Frech III and James Langenfeld [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Skepticism Overdone: The Author Responds Kip R. Sullivan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Race And Patient Satisfaction Reynard R. Bouknight and Andrew Hogan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Understanding The Value Of Prevention William L. Roper and Ashley B. Coffield [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Performance Measurement: Author's Response Mark W. Legnini [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Index

2000 Index [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Guidelines for Authors