For nearly 20 years, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Steven Leifman has coordinated the work of state and local agencies in diverting mentally ill people from the jail system and getting them into comprehensive residential and outpatient recovery services. He was a top contender for the new HHS assistant secretary position in charge of mental health and substance abuse policy. In an interview with Modern Healthcare senior reporter Harris Meyer, Leifman described the structural reforms he believes are needed in mental healthcare and what the federal government must do to achieve those improvements. The following is an edited transcript.
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While the U.S. healthcare system's embrace of different health information technologies is still a work in progress, new models of capturing and sharing health data have already begun to transform the way healthcare providers practice medicine in this country.
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Hospital leaders differ sharply in how they define the patient experience and how they prioritize their improvement initiatives, leading to a clash within the industry.
医院领导在如何定义患者体验以及如何优先考虑改善措施方面存在巨大分歧,导致行业内部发生冲突。
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Anyone who knows anything about healthcare didn't need a Congressional Budget Officer scorecard to understand the disastrous consequences of the American Health Care Act.
任何了解医疗保健的人都不需要国会预算官员的记分卡来理解《美国医疗保健法案》的灾难性后果。
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Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out an uncomfortable truth. I encountered that bit of wisdom early in my career, running my first hospital in central Indiana in the mid-1990s.
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As with so much else, the Trump administration has stumbled in its initial efforts to combat opioid addiction. Given the magnitude of the crisis, healthcare professionals have an obligation to speak out against ill-considered policies.
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Hospital systems have begun in earnest to shift more of their capital spending to outpatient facilities to provide more cost-effective and convenient settings for consumers.
医院系统已经开始认真地将更多的资本支出转移到门诊设施,为消费者提供更具成本效益和方便的环境。
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{"title":"Minnesota deploys telehealth to expand mental health access to rural areas.","authors":"Steven Ross Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74209,"journal":{"name":"Modern healthcare","volume":"47 22","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36711024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}