Exam 13: Health Care Trends and Forecasts

In a survey done by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics in 2014, what percentage of Americans increasingly used the Internet as their first source for general and specific information about health care?

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) regularly reports on important quality measures. Which of the following statements reflects an improvement in quality care as reported in the 2012 report?

Which of the following health care stakeholders mandates licensing and/or certification of certain health care practitioners?

According to the Health Care Cost Institute, the increase in chronic diseases cases by 2023 will add how much in treatment costs and lost economic productivity?

The study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alternations to the genetic code, but are still passed down to at least one successive generation is called:

Define access as it relates to health care.

Define epigenetics.

Identify at least four of the stakeholders in the health care system. Give examples of each.

What development has provided for an increase in personalized medicine?

What did PricewaterhouseCoopers estimate to be the value of the personalized medicine industry in 2009?