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The Board on Health Care Services (HCS) oversees activities of the Institute of Medicine concerned with the quality, effectiveness, organization, financing, and delivery of health care services. The Board identifies high priority health issues, provides guidance on the conduct of studies and projects, and on occasion carries out its own analyses. The Board seeks to advance the well-being of individuals and communities by promoting independent, reliable, scholarly analysis and advice to government, professionals, other members of the health industry, patients, and the public in general.
Areas of Focus
The U.S. health care system is undergoing profound change as a result of fundamental transformations in demographic, social, and political forces influencing all Americans. These changes are redefining what it means to be accountable, causing fundamental alterations in patient-provider relationships and in what it means to be a professional; driving the corporate practice of medicine; both causing and caused by new uses of information technology; and, driving a search for ways of improving the overall value of health services delivered to the American public.
As a result, the Board on Health Care Services of the Institute of Medicine has established the following areas of priority for examination:
- Quality and safety in health care;
- Information technology;
- Health care organization;
- Health professions education and practice;
- Insurance and financing; and
- Human behavior and communications.
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