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Medical Society Management, Finance and Communications

Electronic Medical Records and Health Information Technology

1. DesRoches, et al., Catherine M. Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians. New England Journal of Medicine. July 3, 2008.359, 50-60.
2. President-Elect Urges Electronic Medical Records in 5 Years. ABC News Medical Unit. January 09, http://abcnews.go.com/Health/President44/Story?id=6606536&page=1.

Access to Care and Health System Reform

1. Welch, David, Healthcare Reform, Corporate-Style, BusinessWeek, July 29, 2008.
2. US Senate, Senate Finance Committee, Call to Action: Health Reform 2009 Executive Summary, 2009.
3. An Agenda for Change: Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration. The Darmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. December 2008.
4. Fall 2008 Policy Proposal: A United States Health Board. The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group. Fall 2008
5. Statement on Health Care Reform. American College of Surgeons. 2008.
6. Brown, David. Shortage of General Surgeons Endangers Rural Americans. Washington Post. January 1, 2009.

Changing Healthcare Workforce

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2. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Current Population Survey. 2001.
3. Plotting the Future of Cytopathology. The Forbes Group. May 2007.
4. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, TABLE: Unemployed persons by occupation, industry, and duration of employment, March 2009.
5. The Global Tug-of-War for Health Care Workers. Migration Information Source. December 2004.
6. Physician Workforce Survey Report. Connecticut State Medical Society. September 24, 2008.

Medical Society Membership as a Value Proposition

1. Caraveli , Anna, Ph.D, Building the Future on Member Value: Codevelopment as a Key to Customer Relationships in the 21st Century, Journal of Association Leadership, Spring 2007.

Public Health Infrastructure and its Relationship to Healthcare Delivery

1. Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home. American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association. February 2007. Available at: > www.aafp.org/online/etc/medialib/aafp_org/documents/policy/fed/jointprinciplespcmh0207.Par.0001.File.tmp/022107medicalhome.pdf.
2. Beitsch LM, Brooks RG, Glasser JH, Coble YD. The medicine and public health initiative: ten years later. Am J Prve Med 2005;29:149-53.
3. Benjamin G (Feb 29, 2008). Leading US Health Challenges: The coming decade. Coaltion for Health Funding Hill Briefing, Washington, DC. Available at: www.aamc.org/advocacy/healthfunding/obesityamerica.htm.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC policy on climate change and public health. Available at: www.cdc.gov/nceh/climatechange/pubs/Climate_Change_Policy.pdf.
   
5. Committee on Climate Change and US Transportation, National Research Council (2008). Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation: Special Report 290. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board; 2008. Available at: www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12179.
   
6. Davis R. Marriage. Counseling for Medicine and Public Health: Strengthening the bond between these two health sectors. Am J Prev Med. 2005;29(2):154–157.
   
7. Frequently asked questions about public health. Trust for America’s Health. Available at: http://healthyamericans.org/docs/?DocID=201.
   
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Quality of Care and Patient Safety

1. Wennberg , John E., Fisher , Elliott S., Goodman, David C., and Skinner , Jonathan S. Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 2008. The Darmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. April 2008.
   
2. Kohn , Linda T., Corrigan , Janet M., and Donaldson , Molla S., Editors. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. 2000.

Payment Systems and Insurance Reimbursement Reform

1. Ku, Leighton and Wachino , Victoria. The Effect of Increased Cost-Sharing in Medicaid: A Summary of Research Findings. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. July, 7 2005.
   
2. Merlis, Mark, Gould, Douglas, and Mahato, Bisundev. Rising Out-of-Pocket Spending for Medical Care: A Growing Strain on Family Budgets. February 01, 2006.