This article examines factors influencing the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology, as well as outstanding challenges to the long-term success of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provisions in the American Recovery and...

This article contributes to the current debate over Indiana's malpractice statute of limitations, now on appeal to the state's highest court. This statute, most recently reformed during the mid 1970s "crisis" in liability coverage, is unusually stringent in seeking to bar late-discovered...

Health care competition has arrived. Market changes affect all consumers of health care, perhaps the low-income population most of all. This paper presents evidence from six states and draws general conclusions about current impacts and emerging policy issues. The stimulus for rapid change in...

This case study examined the District of Columbia's 11 acute-care, short-term, nonmilitary hospitals, how they are being affected by market change, and what this means for the city's poor. Information came from interviews with hospital executives and others, hospital association filings, and...